id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15334 Hutchins, William Maynard Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Eds. Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey. London & New York: Routledge, 1998. 2‐volume set, 857p. $290, alk. paper (ISBN 0-415-06808-8). LC 96-047907. 1999-11-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1920 96 55 First conceived as a companion to Arabic literature, it retains some of that spirit in articles such as “the­ atre and drama, medieval,” “Africa, Ara­ bic literature in,” or “singers and musi­ cians,” articles that are often of more general interest than the purely bio­ graphical ones. The focus of this work on its selected realm of Arabic literature, ancient and modern, is both a strength and a weakness. cache/crl-15334.pdf txt/crl-15334.txt