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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | The Arab heritage / by Philip K. Hitti ... [et al.] ; edited by Nabih Amin Faris. |
| Added Author: | Faris, Nabih Amin, |
| Publisher: | New York : Russell & Russell, 1963. |
| Pages: | x, 279 p. : ill. |
| Notes: | (c) 1944 by Princeton University Press. Reissued, 1963, by Russell & Russell, by arrangement with Princeton University Press."The present book represents a popular adaptation of the majority of the lectures delivered at the third Summer Seminar, which was held [at Princeton University] in 1941" (editor's preface).Includes index. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents: | America and the Arab heritage / Philip K. Hitti -- Pre-Islamic Arabia, / Giorgio Levi Della Vida -- Islamic origins: a study in background and foundation / Julian Obermann -- Growth and structure of Arabic poetry A.D. 500-1000 / Gustave E. von Grunebaum -- al-Ghazzali / Nabih Amin Faris -- Crusade and Jihad / John L. LaMonte -- Fourteenth century Jerusalem and Cairo thorugh western eyes / Henry L. Savage -- The course of Arab Scientific thought / Edwarde J. Jurji -- The character of Islamic art / Richard Ettinghausen |
| Descriptors: | Civilisation, Arabic Thought, ArabicHistory Poetry, Ancient Poetry, Ancient -- Artifice |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL DS44 FAR1 |
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