Modern Arabic Literature Book

	Editorial note
	Chronological table of events
	Map of the Arab World
1	Introduction	1
I	The background	1
II	Translations and adaptations 1834-1914	23
2	The Neo-classical Arabic poets	36
3	The Romantic poets	82
4	Modernist poetry in Arabic	132
5	The beginnings of the Arabic novel	180
6	The mature Arabic novel outside Egypt	193
7	The Egyptian novel from Zaynab to 1980	223
8	The modern Arabic short story	270
9	Arabic drama: early developments	329
10	Arabic drama since the thirties	358
11	The prose stylists	404
12	The critics	417
13	Arab women writers	443
14	Poetry in the vernacular	463
	Bibliography	483
	Index	551