History of the Arabic Written Tradition, Supplement Volume 1

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The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted. First Book: The National Literature of the Arabs First Section From the Beginnings until the Appearance of Muḥammad  Chapter 1. The Arabic Language  Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Poetry  Chapter 3. The Forms of Arabic Poetry  Chapter 4. The Nature of Ancient Arabic Poetry  Chapter 5. The Transmission of Arabic Poetry  Chapter 6. Sources for our Knowledge of Ancient Arabic Poetry  Chapter 7. The Six Poets  Chapter 8. Other Poets of Pre-Islamic Times  Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian Poets before Islam  Chapter 10. The Beginnings of Arabic Prose Second Section Muḥammad and His Time  Chapter 1. Muḥammad the Prophet  Chapter 2. The Qurʾān  Chapter 3. Labīd and al-Aʿshā  Chapter 4. Ḥassān b. Thābit  Chapter 5. Kaʿb b. Zuhayr  Chapter 6. Mutammim b. Nuwayra  Chapter 7. Al-Khansāʾ  Chapter 8. Abū Miḥjan and al-Khuṭayʾa  Chapter 9. Minor Poets  Chapter 10. Pseudo-ʿAlid Literature Third Section The Period of the Umayyads  Chapter 2. ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa  Chapter 3. Other Poets in Arabia  Chapter 4. Al-Akhṭal  Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq  Chapter 6. Jarīr  Chapter 7. Dhu ̓l-Rumma  Chapter 9. Minor Poets  Chapter 10. Prose Writing at the Time of the Umayyads Second Book: Islamic Literature in the Arabic Language First Section The Classical Period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000  Chapter 2. Poetry  Chapter 2a. Rhymed Prose  Chapter 3. Philology  Chapter 4. Historiography  Chapter 5. Popular Literature in Prose and Works for General Education  Chapter 6. Ḥadīth  Chapter 7. Fiqh  Chapter 8. Qurʾānic Sciences  Chapter 9. Dogmatics  Chapter 10. Mysticism  Chapter 12. Philosophy  Chapter 13. Mathematics  Chapter 14. Astronomy and Astrology  Chapter 15. Geography  Chapter 16. Medicine  Chapter 17. Natural and Occult Sciences, Varia  Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section The post-Classical Period of Islamic Literature, from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258  Introduction  Chapter 1. Poetry  Chapter 2. Rhymed Prose and Stylistics  Chapter 3. Philology  Chapter 4. Historiography  Chapter 5. Belles lettres in Prose  Chapter 6. Ḥadīth  Chapter 7. Fiqh  Chapter 8. Qurʾānic sciences  Chapter 9. Dogmatics  Chapter 10 Mysticism  Chapter 11. Philosophy and Politics  Chapter 12. Mathematics  Chapter 13. Astronomy  Chapter 14. Travelogues and Geographies  Chapter 15. Medicine  Chapter 16. Natural Sciences and Technology  Chapter 16. Appendix  Chapter 17. Occult Sciences  Chapter 18. Encyclopedias and Polyhistors  Addenda & Corrigenda