ARA 301 : Arabic Prose to the end of the Abbasid Era

Arabic Dictionaries

Lisān al-Arab لسان العرب
Call Number: PJ6620.I154 1992 Reference Collection - 1st Floor
Mujam al-nafāis al-wasīt معجم النفائس الوسيط
Call Number: PJ6622.A28 2011 Reference Collection - 1st Floor
al-Munjid fī al-lughah wa al-aʻlām المنجد فى اللغة والاعلام
Call Number: AG90.A7 M8 2008 Reference Collection - 1st Floor

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الأدب في عصر العباسيين : منذ قيام الدولة حتى نهاية القرن الثالث al-Adab fī ʻAṣr al-ʻAbbāsīyīn : mundhu qiyām al-dawlah ḥttá nihāyat al-qarn al-thālith by Muḥammad Zaghlūl Sallām
Call Number: PJ7530 .S228 1993 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
ISBN: 9770301507
الأساليب الأدبية في النثر العربي القديم من عصر علي بن ابي طالب الى عصر بن خلدون، 600-1400 : مع نصوص من روائع بلغاء الكتاب للدرس والتحليل al-Asālīb al-adabīyah fī al-nathr al-ʻArabī al-qadīm : min ʻaṣr ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ilá ʻaṣr Ibn Khaldūn by Kamāl Yāzijī
Call Number: PJ7574 .Y3 1986 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
Publication Date: 1986
نشأة الشعر الجاهلي وتطوره : دراسة في المنهج : محاولة أولى Nashʼat al-shiʻr al-Jāhilī wa-taṭawwuruh : dirāsah fī al-manhaj : muḥāwalah ūlá by Nāṣir al-Dīn Asad
Call Number: PJ7543 .A8 1999 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
Publication Date: 1999
al-Mawsūah al-Arabīyah al-ālamīyah الموسوعة العربية العالمية
Call Number: AE10.55 .M356 1999 -Reference Collection - 1st Floor
Mūjaz Dāirat al-maārif al-Islāmīyah موجز دائرة المعارف الاسلامية
Call Number: DS37 .E52319 1998 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
The Literature of Al-Andalus by María Rosa Menocal (Editor); Michael Sells (Editor); Raymond P. Scheindlin (Editor)
ISBN: 0521471591
Publication Date: 2012
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture by Shawkat M. Toorawa
Call Number: PJ7532 .T66 2005 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
ISBN: 9780415595896
Publication Date: 2005
Al-Jahiz by James E. Montgomery
Call Number: PJ7745.J3 Z7885 2013 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
ISBN: 0748683321
Publication Date: 2013-12-30
The Maqamat of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani by W. J. Prendergast
ISBN: 9781317378563
Publication Date: 2015-10-14
Early Arabic Poetry by Alan Jones (Editor, Translator)
ISBN: 9780863723872
Publication Date: 2011-11-30
Series: Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
Also available in General Collection
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period by A. F. L. Beeston (Editor); T. M. Johnstone (Editor); R. B. Serjeant (Editor); G. R. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: PJ7500 .C18 1983 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
ISBN: 0521240158
Publication Date: 1983-11-03
Series: Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey (Editor); Julie S. Meisami (Editor); Julie Meisami (Editor)
Call Number: PJ7510 .E53 1998 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
ISBN: 0415068088
Publication Date: 1998-05-29
'Abbasid Belles-Lettres by Julia Ashtiany (Editor); T. M. Johnstone (Editor); J. D. Latham (Editor); R. B. Serjeant (Editor)
Call Number: PJ7530 .A18 1990 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
ISBN: 9780521240161
Publication Date: 1990-03-30
Series: Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
Also available in General Collection
The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry by Michael J. Zwettler
Call Number: PJ7541 .Z9 1978 - General Collection - 2nd Floor
ISBN: 081420273X
Publication Date: 1978-09-01

Resources including Biographical Information

Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives by Chase F. Robinson
Call Number: DS36.85 .R63 2016 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
ISBN: 9780520292987
Publication Date: 2016-11-14
The Muslim 100 by Muhammad Mojlum Khan
ISBN: 9781847740298
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Electronic Book
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam by Ibrahim Kalin (Editor); Salim Ayduz (Editor); Caner Dagli (Editor)
Call Number: Q127.I742 O94 2014 - Reference Collection - 1st Floor
ISBN: 9780199812578
Publication Date: 2014-05-08
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Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new window
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Arabic Internet Sites مواقع عربية على الانترنت

World Encyclopedia for Arabic Poetry الموسوعة العالمية للشعر العربي