Volume 1: classical traditions and modern meanings. Volume 2: eulogy's bounty, meaning's abindance.
Stefan Sperl Ph.D. (London 1977), worked for UNHCR from 1978 to
1988 and now teaches Arabic literature and refugee studies at the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London; his publications
include Mannerism in Arabic Poetry (Cambridge 1989).
Christopher Shackle Ph.D. (London 1972), FBA. is Professor of
Modern Languages of South Asia at the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London. He has published extensively on South
Asian languages and literatures, especially Urdu und Panjabi.
'Few bibliographies of Islamic literature will (or should) now omit
these two volumes from their listings.'
Philip Kennedy, Research in African Literatures, 1997.
'This is a truly unique and monumental work which is not likely to
be superseded in a very long time...Although it is virtually
impossible for a review to do justice to this outstanding and
wide-ranging work, there is no doubt in the mind of this reviewer
that its greatest distinction derives from the papers contained in
it…The wide area that the book covers spatially and temporally
makes it highly informative, for it is scarcely possible for any
single person to cover as much terrain as the book does.'
Wadād Kadi, Journal of Islamic Studies, 1999.
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