Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad PeriodOriginally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluable source of reference and understanding of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic speaking and Islamic world. This volume begins its coverage with the