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| Title | : | A Literary History of the Arabs |
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (479 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521095727 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 538 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1969-05-01 |
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Editorial : About the Author Nicholson was Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, and a distinguished editor and translator.
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The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays, satires, de arte amoris), religious, mystical and philosophical writings, and huge compendia of history, biography and geography. For sixty years, the best account in English of this vast output has been, by universal consent, R. A. Nicholson's Literary History of the Arabs; its supremacy will long remain unchallenged. That it is a book full of erudition and high critical judgement goes without saying; its author is also a poet-translator of rare excellence.
They are vehicles for aspects of life that only he examines while the rest Of us stumble through life. Book came as advertised.. ing.. The jokes are really bad. For instance, results from animal experiments indicate that a prolonged pathologic input from deep tissues abolishes rather than enhances the capability of C-fibers from muscle to facilitate the flexor reflex for prolonged periods of time. The one criticism I have is the clumsy writing--these guys are definitely not American.. Not that I can say I blame him, especially since he did witness a man giving birth loudly and painfully right before the father mate shifted into a huge bear and shocked as well as scared the bejesus out of him. During the El Alamein fighting, Stumme suffered a fatal heart attack while clinging to the running board of his fleeing staff car. The book is sooooo Funny. You're better off! Because if you do pick this book up, it's going to be hard to put it down.. It has many of mypersonal favorite songs like
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