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Book/Printed Material The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History.

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Title

  • The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History.

Summary

  • Al-Wasit fi-al-Adab al-'Arabi wa-Tarikhih (The interpreter of Arabic literature and its history) is a textbook in Arabic literature approved for use by the Egyptian Ministry of Education in the various schools under its jurisdiction, namely all teacher-training institutes and secondary schools. The authors were religious and literary figures. The better known of the two, Shaykh Ahmad al-Iskandarī, was born in Alexandria, pursued his studies at al-Azhar, and became a teacher in the schools of al-Fayyūm and other areas around Cairo. He was appointed to the faculty of Cairo University and was elected to the prestigious Arabic Language Academy. He was the author of several textbooks, including a history of Abbasid literature. Shaykh Mustafa 'Anani appears also to have been a teacher, although not a great deal is known about where he lived and worked. He was the author of a work on the 11th-century Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, first published by Dar al-Ma'arif in 1899 and subsequently updated. The current work is the first edition of al-Wasit. It became a standard text in the Arabic curriculum. As is usually the case with Dar al-Ma'arif publications, the book is of a high standard of scholarship and production. The authors cover the history of Arabic literature in all its aspects: poetry, prose, historical narrative, rhetoric, and so forth from pre-Islamic times to their own day. As an important reference in the field, it is supplemented by al-Iskandarī's multivolume, Muntakhab min Adab al-'Arab (Selections from Arabic literature), published in Cairo 1944-54.

Names

  • Iskandarī, Aḥmad, 1875-1938, author.
  • ʻInānī, Muṣṭafá, author.

Created / Published

  • Cairo : al-Ma'arif Press, 1919.

Headings

  • -  Egypt
  • -  200 to 1919
  • -  Arabic literature
  • -  Criticism
  • -  Textbooks

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 288 pages ; 25 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Sarkis, Yusuf Ilyan. Mu'jam al-Matbu'at al-'Arabiyah wa-al-Mu'arrabah (Dictionary of Arabic printed books and translations). (Cairo: Sarkis, 1928).
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666257

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Iskandarī, Aḥmad, Author, and Muṣṭafá ʻInānī. The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History. Cairo: al-Ma'arif Press, 1919. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666257/.

APA citation style:

Iskandarī, A. & ʻInānī, M. (1919) The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History. Cairo: al-Ma'arif Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666257/.

MLA citation style:

Iskandarī, Aḥmad, Author, and Muṣṭafá ʻInānī. The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History. Cairo: al-Ma'arif Press, 1919. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666257/>.