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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
400

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Table of Contents

THE KORAN: SCRIPTURE AND LITERATURE
Meccan Chapters
Medinan Chapters
EARLY ARABIC POETRY
Odes
Poems from Early Anthologies
PROVERBS
The AGE OF THE CALIPHS (632-1050)
Historical Summary
The Monkey and the Tortoise / Ibm Al-Muqaffa
The Prophet Mohammed / Ibn Ishaq
The New Poets
Clever Sayings / Al-jahiz.
Flies and Mosquitoes
The Crucifixion of a Mystic / Al-Hallaj
Two Poems / Rudaki
Lauds / Al-Mutanabbi
Sufi Sayings / Al-Kalabadhi
Rustam and Sohrab / Firdawsi / Doubts / Al-Maarri
Falling in Love / Ibn Hazm
Anxiety
Moorish Poetry.
TURKS, FRANKS, AND MONGOLS (1050-1350)
Historical Summary
Advice to Governors / Nizam Al-Mulk
The Purchase of Slaves / Kai Kaus
Quatrains / Umar Khayyam
Confessions of a Troubled Believer / Al-Ghazzali
Encounters in Oriental Cities / Al-Hariri
Samarkand
Tiflis
Samarqandi : Stories About Persian Poets.
Rudaki
Firdawsi
Umar Khayyam
Alone on a Desert Island / Ibu Tufayl
A Moslem View of the Crusades / Usamah
A Pilgrimage to Mecca / Ibn Jubayr
Star-crossed Lovers / Nizami
The Demon and the Sage / Al-Warawini
The Bird Parliament / Attar
Love Poems / Rumi
Illustrations
Morals / Sadi.
ISLAM'S NEW WORLD (1350-1800)
Historical Summary
The Muldive Islands / Ibn Battutah
Ten Odes / Hafiz
Group Solidarity / Ibn Khaldun
Conversations with Tamerlane
The Romance of Antar: Antar Slays a Lion
The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of the Three Apples
Maruf the Cobbler
The Women of Memphis / Jami
Memoirs of a Conqueror / Babur
The Year 1502
The Year 1526
Mogul Poetry
Tobacco / Hajji Khalifah
Coffee
Bribery / Sari Mehmed Pasha
Ottoman Poetry
The Bloody Popular / Karagöz.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-398).

Published in
Harmondsworth, Eng
Series
Pelican books

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
892.708
Library of Congress
PJ7694.E1 K7 1964

The Physical Object

Pagination
400 pages
Number of pages
400

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28381159M
Internet Archive
anthologyofislam0000krit_f8i1
OCLC/WorldCat
3753635

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