Full Description
The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann's transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.
Contents
Preface
Note to the Reader
Transcription
Third Book: The Decline of Islamic Literature
First Section From Mongol Rule Until the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in the Year 1517
Introduction
Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazīra
Chapter 3. North Arabia
Chapter 4. South Arabia
Chapter 5. Iran and Tūrān
Chapter 6. India
Chapter 7. The Turks of Rūm and the Ottomans
Chapter 8. North Africa
Chapter 9. Spain
Second Section From the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in 1517 to the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798
Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
Chapter 2. Al-Jazīra, Iraq, and Bahrain
Chapter 3. North Arabia
Chapter 4. South Arabia
Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abyssinia
Chapter 6. Iran and Tūrān
Chapter 7. India
Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago
Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia
Chapter 10. The Maghreb
Chapter 11. The Sudan
Third Section From the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt Until the British Occupation
Chapter 1. Egypt
Chapter 2. Syria
Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq
Chapter 4. North Arabia
Chapter 5. South Arabia
Chapter 6. Oman
Chapter 7. Persia
Chapter 8. Afghanistan
Chapter 9. India
Chapter 10. Ceylon, Farther India, and the Malay Archipelago
Chapter 11. Istanbul
Chapter 12. Russia
Chapter 13. The Maghreb
Chapter 14. The Sudan
Appendix. A Selective Listing of Authors of Unknown Place and Date, in Alphabetical Order
1 Poetry
2 Rhymed Prose and Popular Literature
3 Philology
4 Historiography
5 Ḥadīth
6 Fiqh
7 Sciences of the Qurʾān
8 Dogmatics and Polemics
9 Mysticism and Edifying Works
10 Philosophy and Politics
11 Mathematics and Astronomy
12 Geography and Cosmography
13 Medicine
14 Eroticism
15 Natural Sciences and Technology
16 Alchemy
17 Music
18 Sports
19 Occult Sciences
20 Encyclopaedias
