Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology

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xii Abbreviations ABL Julia Ashtiany et al., ed. ʿAbbasid Belles Lettres The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ALUP A.F.L. Beeston et al., ed. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. b. born; (in names) ibn “son (of)” bt. (in names) ibnat or bint “daughter (of)” ca. circa d. died EAL Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey, ed. Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature . London: Routledge, 1998. EI2 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New[= Second] Edition (11 vols. with Supplement vol. and Index vol.). Leiden: Brill, 1960–2009. fl. floruit h (in dates) Hijrī, Muslim calendar PCP Roger Allen and D.S. Richards, ed. Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period. Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Cambridge. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. r. ruled Q Qur’an ...