History of the Arabic Written Tradition

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History of the Arabic Written Tradition
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Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur 1909 - Carl Brockelmann
Author Carl Brockelmann
Original titleGeschichte der arabischen Litteratur

History of the Arabic Written Tradition (German : Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, or GAL) is a reference work produced by the German scholar Carl Brockelmann and first published in two editions by Brill in Leiden in 1898 and 1902. [1]

Contents

It lists around 25,000 individual works by some 18,000 authors from the Arabic literary tradition. [2] Over the years other academics would add volumes to the work, for example Fuat Sezgin has updated Brockelmann's list by adding some 12,000 titles and 9,000 writers. [2]

Publication

The first edition of the work was first published in two volumes (1898–1902), and aimed to give a framework which divided Arabic literature into periods and subjects. [3] However, Brockelmann later wrote a series of three Supplementbände ('supplement volumes') that vastly expanded the original work and then revised the original volumes, so the final work comprised the following:

Between 2016 and 2018, GAL was published by Brill in an updated English translation as History of the Arabic Written Tradition. [4]

Influence

The work is considered a classic of Orientalist scholarship and it remains a fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature. [5] Abd ar-Rahman Badawi in his Encyclopedia of Orientalists describes it as "the single and essential source for everything relating to Arabic manuscripts and the places where they are kept." [6]

References

  1. ↑ Brockelmann, Carl (2016). History of the Arabic written tradition. Volume 1. Joep Lameer, J. J. Witkam. Leiden. ISBN   978-90-04-32626-2. OCLC   958141263.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. 1 2 Gacek, Adam (2009). Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 154. ISBN   978-90-04-17036-0.
  3. ↑ Witkman, Jan Just (1996). "Brockelmann's Geschichte revisited". In Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL). Vol. 1. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill. pp. v–xvii.
  4. ↑ "History of the Arabic Written Tradition". Brill Publishers. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  5. ↑ Skreslet, Paula Youngman; Skreslet, Rebecca (2006). The Literature of Islam: A Guide to the Primary Sources in English Translation. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   9780810854086.
  6. ↑ مؤلف., بدوي، عبد الرحمن، 1917-2002. موسوعة المستشرقين. p. 98. OCLC   1230014216.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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