Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature

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The following pages contain nothing new and nothing original, but they
do contain a good deal of information gathered from various sources,
and brought together under one cover.  The book itself may be useful,
not, perhaps, to the Professor or to the Orientalist, but to the
general reader, and to the student commencing the study of Arabic.  To
the latter it will give some idea of the vast field of Arabian
literature that lies before him, and prepare him, perhaps, for working
out a really interesting work upon the subject.  Such still remains to
be written in the English language, and it is to be hoped that it will
be done some day thoroughly and well.