Arabic Authors - A Manual of Arabian History and Literature

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Arabic Authors, by F. F. ArbuthnotThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and LiteratureAuthor: F. F. ArbuthnotRelease Date: November 24, 2006 [EBook #19914]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARABIC AUTHORS ***Produced by Thierry Alberto, Don Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.netARABIC AUTHORS.A MANUAL OF ARABIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE.BYF.F. ARBUTHNOT, M.R.A.S.,AUTHOR OF"EARLY IDEAS" AND "PERSIAN PORTRAITS." LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1890.PREFACE.The following pages contain nothing new and nothing original, but they do contain a good deal of information gatheredfrom various sources, and brought together under one cover. The book itself may be useful, not, perhaps, to theProfessor or to the Orientalist, but to the general reader, and to the student commencing the study of Arabic. To the latterit will give some idea of the vast field of Arabian literature that lies before him, and prepare him, perhaps, for working outa really interesting work upon the subject. Such still remains to be written in the English language, ...