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Article: The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Developments of its Genres and Criticism.(Review)
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- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Roger Allen, The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Developments of its Genres and Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 437 pages, including index. Hardcover $95.00.
"It is with a conscious awareness of the need for an introductory work for a general, non-specialist readership that I have written this book," states Roger Allen in his well-written and thoroughly researched volume on Arabic literature. In The Arabic Literary Heritage, Allen provides the general reader with a highly digestible and extremely useful account of an otherwise intractable, if not quite unmanageable, field of discourse. For the purists among students of Arabic literature, ...