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an informa business www.routledge.com Page Intentionally Left Blank Page Intentionally Left Blank A Literary History of the Arabs LITIGAN IS BEFORE A JUDGE From an Arabic manuscript in the British Museum (Or. 1200; No. 1007 in Ricu's Arahic Supplement), dated A.H. 654 = A.D. 1256, which contains the Maqcimcit of Harirfr illu.strated by 81 miniatures in colours. This one represents a scene in the 8th Maqcimci : Abu Zayd and his son appearing before the Cadi of Ma'arratu '1-Nu'man. The figure on the left is 1-Hrith b. Hammam, whom Hariri puts forward as the relater of Abu Zayd's adventures A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ARABS Reynold A. Nicholson ~ ~ ~~o~;~~n~~;up LONDON AND NEW YORK © 1993 Taylor & Francis. Reprinted in 1993 By Curzon Press Ltd New in paperback 1995 Reprinted 2004 by RoutledgeCurzon ISBN 978-0-700-70336-4 ISBN: 978-0-203-98548-9 (eiSBN) First published in 1907 This is a reprint of the 1930 edition by arrangement with Cambridge University Press Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint oft he Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record for this title is available on request from the British Library 'I"o PROFESSOR A. A. BEVAN In grateful recollection of many kindnesses Page Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE .A Literary History of the .Arabs, published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1907 and twice re-issued without alteration, now appears under new auspices, and I wish to thank the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press for the opportunity they have given me of making it in some respects more accurate and useful than it has hitherto been. Since the present edition is printed from the original plates, there could be no question of revising the book throughout and recasting it where necessary; but while only a few pages have been rewritten, the Bibliography has been brought up to date and I have removed several mistakes from the text and corrected others in an appendix which includes a certain amount of supplementary matter. As stated in the preface to the first edition, I hoped "to compile a work which should serve as a general introduction to the subject, and which should be neither too popular for students nor too scientific for ordinary readers. It has been my chief aim to sketch in broad outlines what the Arabs thought, and to indicate as far as possible the inRuences which moulded their thought .... Experience has convinced me that young students of Arabic, to whom this volume is principally addressed, often find difficulty in under standing what they read, since they arc not in touch with the political, intellectual, and religious notions which arc presented to them. The pages of almost every Arabic book abound in allusions to names, events, movements, and ideas of which Moslems require no explanation, but which puzzle theW estern reader unless he have some general knowledge of Arabian history in the widest meaning of the word. Such a survey is not to be found, I believe, in any single European book; and if mine supply the want, however partially and inadequately, I is
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