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Article: A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
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Marilyn Booth
Domes
10-31-1994
A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature.
In the past three years there have appeared four volumes in English that trace the contours of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arabic literature with a view to providing an introduction to, and survey of, the subject for students and a general audience, as well as offering a resource for specialists. The volume edited by Robin Ostle sets Arabic literature in the context of other literatures of the region, and thus necessarily offers a brief treatment.(1) The latest volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, by contrast, is encyclopedic in its range and contents.(2) Comprehensive yet succinct, each in ...