Extracts from Brockelmann’s “History of Arabic literature”– 1
For the last week or so, I’ve been reading sections of vol. 1 of the 2nd edition of Carl Brockelmann’s History of Arabic Literature. I’m starting to get some idea of what exists, which is the object....
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Brockelmann’s History of Arabic literature does list English translations known in 1940. One of these was by Alfred von Kramer, from 1854, and was a translation of al-Wakidi’s biography of Mohammed....
View ArticleArabic biographies of Mohammed – Brockelmann’s bibliography
More than a month ago I obtained paper copies of Brockelmann’s great but flawed reference volumes on Arabic literature. Seeing only a page or two on the Arabic biographers of Mohammed, I was moved to...
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