3>b^'^J^^'7MWHistoryA Literaryof the ArabsByReynold A. Nicholson, M.A.Lecturer in Persian in the University of Cambridge, and sometimeFellow of Trinity CollegeLondonT. Fisher UnwinAdelphi Terrace1907R^^h^Kreserved.)(All rightsPreface' in suchThe term Literary History ' may be interpretedto explaindifferent ways that an author who uses it is boundattached to it.at the outset what particular sense he hasvolume onWhen Mr, Fisher Unwin asked me to contribute aproposal with alacrity,the Arabs to this Series, 1 accepted hisopportunity of makingnot only because I welcomed theArabic history and literature,myself better acquainted withthat I might be ablebut also and more especially in the hopeto compile should serve as a general introductiona work whichto the should neither be too popular forsubject, and whichstudents nor ordinary readers. Its precisetoo scientific forcharacter determined partly by my own predilections andwaspartly the conditions of time and space under which it hadbyto be produced. write critical account of ArabicTo aliterature of question. Brockelmann's invaluablewas out theiswork, which contains over a thousand closely-printed pages,confined biography and bibliography, and does not deal withtotothe historical development of ideas. This, however, seemsmyme the really vital aspect of literary history. It has beenthought,chief aim to sketch in broad outlines what the Arabsmouldedand to indicate as far as possible the ...
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