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Arabic literature is literature written in Arabic, or by Arabs in other languages.

1 Genres and forms

2 Noted authors

2.1 Historical

Antara Ibn Shaddad al-'Absi, pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet (fl. 580 CE).
Abu Nuwas, poet (756-815)
al-Mutanabbi , poet (915-965)
al-Hariri (1054-1122)
Muhammad al-Nawaji bin Hasan bin Ali bin Othman , Cairene mystic, Sufi and poet (1383?-1455)

2.2 Modern

Tayeb Salih
Abdul Rahman Munif
Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi, notable for being the first Algerian woman published in English
Ra'ouf Mus'ad, not one of the most well-known Arab authors, but interesting.

3 References

Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1982) BooksEnthsiast.com.
Alamgir Hashmi, The Worlds of Muslim Imagination (1986) BooksEnthsiast.com.
Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, multiple authors and editors
- Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period (1983) BooksEnthsiast.com
- 'Abbasid Belles Lettres (1990) BooksEnthsiast.com
- Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period (1991) BooksEnthsiast.com
- The Literature of Al-Andalus (2000) BooksEnthsiast.com
- Modern Arabic Literature (1993) BooksEnthsiast.com

4 See also

Kitab al-I'tibar The autobiography of Usamah ibn Munqidh, in the Adab genre

5 External links

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