It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature.
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available.
Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting.
This concise bilingual bibliography is a comprehensive list of Classical Arabic texts on grammar, lexicography, adab, balagha, metrics and poetry, which have been edited from 1960 to 2000.
This volume represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Hazm of Cordoba (d.