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CLASSICAL ARABIC PROSE LITERATURE: A RESEARCHERS' SKETCH MAP1 Classical Arabic prose, for the most part, does not merit literary study. At least this is the impression conveyed by two recent works of reference,2 2 in which the discussion of classical poetry reflects a level of sophistication and reflection which the survey of prose does not pretend to. Having worked on classical prose literature for some time, we feel that more can be said about it than the surveys referred to above suggest. We propose here to describe the characteristics and development of this branch of Arabic writing in the light of current research, to identify problems connected with the study of it and to indicate some paths which future investigations could take. If comprehensiveness were ever possi- ble, it is obviously out of the question in an article of this kind; our aim is above all to stimulate reflection about a corpus of works significant both in quantity and in quality. We have used the following definition of classical Arabic prose literature as a starting point: works principally in prose, in which there is a pervasive concern with artistic expression as well as the communica- tion of information.
Journal of Arabic Literature – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1992
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