A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature
Author | : S.A. Bonebakker |
Publisher | : Lockwood Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781948488907 |
ISBN-13 | : 1948488906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed a superb teaching text, which he then asked his UCLA colleague, Michael Fishbein, to help him annotate and augment. The result is a truly valuable reader, one used widely in the United States and Europe, featuring judicious and instructive selections from such works as Ibn al-Qifti's Inbah al-ruwat, al-Tanukhi's al-Faraj ba'd al-shidda, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar a'lam al-nubala', among others.