ARAB 4710 - Survey of Early and Medieval Islamic Literature

Meets with ARAB 6710 and MID E 6171. First course in a two-semester sequence. The art of the pre-Islamic Arabian poets of the sixth century, the sacred scripture of the Qur'an, and examples of very early oratory. The ideals and traditions of poetry and prose writing and as they developed and prevailed up to the nineteenth century. Study of masterpieces of authors from the Islamic lands of the Near East, Egypt, North Africa, and Islamic Spain.