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This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides a comprehensive scholarly survey of Arabic literature from its pre-Islamic origins through the end of the Umayyad period (661–750 CE). The book examines early Arabic poetry, the Qur’anic text, religious and political prose, historiography, and the development of literary forms in the formative centuries of Islamic civilization. Contributions from leading international scholars offer critical analysis of linguistic, cultural, and historical contexts shaping early Arabic literary production.

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