A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature

S. A. Bonebakker; M. Fishbein

doi:10.5913/2012031

A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature

Authors

S. A. Bonebakker (ed)

M. Fishbein (ed)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5913/2012031

Keywords:

Arabic

Synopsis

A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed a superb teaching text, which he then asked his UCLA colleague, Michael Fishbein, to help him annotate and augment. The result is a truly valuable reader, one used widely in the United States and Europe, featuring judicious and instructive selections from such works as Ibn al-Qifti's Inbah al-ruwat, al-Tanukhi's al-Faraj ba'd al-shidda, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar a'lam al-nubala', among others.