Arabic Authors

Arabia’s earliest age is a land of heroes, giants, and wonderful cities—yet almost nothing of it, F. F. Arbuthnot cautions, can be known for certain.

In this late-19th-century manual, Arbuthnot begins with the vast peninsula of deserts, sacred cities, and settled provinces, then traces the upheavals that remade it after Muhammad. The struggle for rule, the rise and fall of dynasties, and the bitter division between Sunnis and Shias form more than a political history: for Arab authors, the Koran was the foundation of literature and its model of eloquence. How did a peninsula of rival powers become the source of a literary tradition shaped by such a turbulent past?

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