A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature

by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī

Book Overview

This is the first book in English that gives a concise and authoritative survey of the whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-nineteenth century with a view to helping the general reader as well as the student to form a clear picture of the literary achievements of the modern Arabs. The drive for modernization, which started in Egypt and Syria early in the nineteenth century and which gradually spread to the rest of the Arab world, resulted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198265425
• ISBN13: 9780198265429
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.8"