Routledge Revivals: Selected Works of A. J. Arberry

Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Selected Works of A. J. Arberry written by A. J. Arberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. J. Arberry is one of Britain’s most distinguished and celebrated Orientalist scholars. This set contains five of Professor Arberry’s works: Scheherezade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1953); The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic literature (1957); Classical Persian Literature (1958); The Romance of the Rubaiìyatì (1959); Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Scholars (1960); More Tales from the Masnavi (1963). These titles include translations of key middle-eastern texts and informative works on Persian literature as well as the European scholars that paved the way for 20th century Orientalist study. This set will be of interest to those studying Middle-Eastern literature and history.