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Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
Nayl al-arab fī tārīkh al-ʻArab (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Salīmīyah, 1914), by Adīb Laḥḥūd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Mukhtārāt al-farīdah fī al-adab wa-al-shiʻr wa-al-ijtimāʻ ([publisher not identified], 1927), by Maḥmūd Kāmil Farīd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Tahānī al-baladīyah fī al-maḥāmid al-khālidīyah : majmūʻat aqwāl al-jarā'id (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Adabīyah, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
ʻAṣr al-Maʾmūn (Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, 1928), by Aḥmad Farīd Rifāʻī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der christlichen Literaturen des Orients (C. F. Amelang, 1972), by Enno Littmann, Johannes Leipoldt, Franz Nikolaus Finck, and Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Arabic literature, an introduction (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926), by H. A. R. Gibb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Irshád al-aríb ilá maʻrifat al-adíb (E. j. Brill, 1907), by 1179?-1229 Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī and D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
ʻAṣr al-Maʻmūn (Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, 1927), by Aḥmad Farīd Rifāʻī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A literary history of the Arabs. (Unwin, 1923), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Arabic authors. (W. Heinemann, 1890), by F. F. Arbuthnot (page images at HathiTrust)
Bibliothèque orientale, ou Dictionnaire universel contenant tout ce qui fait connoître les peuples de l'Orient. (J. Neaulme & N. van Daalen, 1777), by Barthélemy d' Herbelot, d 1658 Ḣājī Khalfah, P. D. B., P. D. B., Claude de Visdelou, H. A. Schultens, Johann Jacob Reiske, Antoine Galland, and Louis Cousin (page images at HathiTrust)
Nukhbat ʻIqd al-ajyād fī al-ṣāfināt al-jiyād (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ahlīyah, 1905), by Muḥammad Bāshā Jazāʼirī (page images at HathiTrust)
A literary history of the Arabs (T.F. Unwin, 1907), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Mutashābah fī naẓm al-nathr wa-ḥal al-shiʻr (al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻArabīyah, 1927), by ʻIzzat ʻAṭṭār (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Mathal al-sāʾir fī adab al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Bahīyah, 1894), by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Athīr and ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh al-ādāb al-ʻArabīyah min nashʾatuhā ilá ayāmunā ([Maṭbaʻat al-Farīr], 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb nuzhat al-albāb fī tārīkh Miṣr wa-shuʻarāʾ al-ʻaṣr wa-murāsalāt al-aḥbāb (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1896), by Muḥammad Ḥusnī ʻĀmirī (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Hajw. (s.n., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Ṭirāz al-majālis ([al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah], 1867), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Khafājī (page images at HathiTrust)
Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen âge (E.J. Brill, 1849), by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy and Feliciano Ramírez de Arellano Fuensanta del Valle (page images at HathiTrust)
Mélanges africains et orientaux. (J. Maisonneuve, 1915), by René Basset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Qitaʻ al-muntakhabah. (1893), by Yahvā Ibrāhīm (page images at HathiTrust)
Fī al-adab al-Jāhilī (Maṭbaʻat al-Iʻtimād, 1927), by Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (page images at HathiTrust)
Medreset ül-Arap (Matbaa-yı Ebüzziya, 1886), by Abdurrahman Fehmi (page images at HathiTrust)
Historya literatury arabskiej (Drukarnia A.T. Jezierskiego, 1901), by Julian Adolf Świecicki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Plan de una biblioteca de autores árabes españoles; ó, Estudios biográficos y bibliograficos para servir á la historia de la literatura arábiga en Españ (Impr. de Manuel Galiano, 1861), by F. Fernández y González (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-Shiʻr wa-al-shuʻarāʼ, wa-qila Ṭabaqāt al-Shuʻarāʼ (Maṭbaʻat Brīl, 1902), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Personification of soul and body (Dropsie College, 1912), by Henry Malter (page images at HathiTrust)
Die aethiopische und arabische übersetzung des Pseudocallisthenes. Eine literarkritische untersuchung. (Druck von M. Schmersow, 1901), by Karl Friedrich Weymann (page images at HathiTrust)
Proelia Arabum paganorum (Ajjâm al ʻArab) quomodo litteris tradita sint (Mayer et Mueller, 1899), by Eugen Mittwoch (page images at HathiTrust)
Storia della letteratura araba sotto il Califfato (F. le Monnier, 1846), by Filippo Deʼ Bardi (page images at HathiTrust)
Littérature arabe (A. Colin, 1902), by Clément Huart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Letteratura araba (U. Hoepli, 1903), by Italo Pizzi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Literaturgeschichte der Araber. Von ihrem beginne bis zu ende des zwölften jahrhunderts der h,idschret. (Kaiserl. königl. hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1850), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte der christlichen Litteraturen des Orients (C.F. Amelang, 1907), by Enno Littmann, Johannes Leipoldt, Franz Nikolaus Finck, and Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb al-kāmil fī al-lughah wa-al-adab (Maktabat al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Wāḥid, 1905), by Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Mubarrad (page images at HathiTrust)
Istorīi͡a arabov i arabskoĭ literatury, svi͡etskoĭ i dukhovnoĭ (Korana, fykkha, sunny i pr.) (V Tip. I͡A.A. Nirenberga, 1913), by A. E. Krymskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
De scientiis et studiis Arabum ante Mohammedem et de fabulis Lokmani (Dieterich, 1831), by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-Ṭirāz al-muwashshá fī ṣināʻat al-inshā (Maṭbaʻat al-Taʾlīf, 1894), by Muḥammad Najjār (page images at HathiTrust)
Rasāʼil Abī al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Hamadhānī al-maʻrūf bi-Badīʻ al-Zamān (880-04 Būlāq, Miṣr : al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1291 [1874], 1874), by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī and Badīʻ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Ḥayāt al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Jarīdah, 1910), by Ḥifnī Nāṣif (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb tārīkh ādāb al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1912), by Jirjī Zaydān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abyāt qīlat fī Badr (Halle a. S., 1895), by Paul Brönnle and -approximately 652 Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī (page images at HathiTrust)
Tarih-i edebiyat-ı Arabiye (Matbaa-yı Âmire, 1917), by Bağdatlı Müderiszade Mehmet Fehmi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Kāmil (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Azhariyah, 1920), by Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Mubarrad and Ibrāhīm Damlūjī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. (C.F.Amelang, 1909), by Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-aghānī. (Koch., 1840), by 897 or 898-967 Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī and Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (E. Felber, 1898), by Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (C.F. Amelang, 1901), by Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Muṭālaʻāt fī al-lughah wa-al-adab. (Maṭbaʻat Madrasat al-Aytām al-Islāmīyah, 1925), by Khalīl Sakākīnī (page images at HathiTrust)
Locmani fabulae et plura loca ex codicibus maximam : partem historicis selecta in usum scholarum arabicarum (A. Marcum, 1823), by G. W. Freytag (page images at HathiTrust)
Littérature arabe (A. Colin, 1912), by Clément Huart (page images at HathiTrust)
Ṭirāz al-majālis (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1867), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Khafājī (page images at HathiTrust)
Uebersicht der Literaturgeschichte der Araber (Kaiserlich-Königlichen hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1851), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of Arabic literature (D. Appleton and company, 1903), by Clément Huart, Mary Loyd, and Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson Loyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. (C. F. Amelang, 1901), by Paul Horn and Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Orientalische Bibliothek : Universalwörterbuch, welches alles enthält, was zur Kenntniss des Orients nothwendig ist / Verfasst von Bartholom. d'Herbelot. (J. J. Gebauer, 1785), by Barthélemy d' Herbelot (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb tārīkh ādāb al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1911), by Jirjī Zaydān (page images at HathiTrust)
Abulhasan, Mansur: Arabische Schriftsteller über die Geographie Indiens. Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte. (Reichsdr., 1919), by Abūʼl-Ḥasan Manṣūr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Khizānat al-adab wa-ghāyat al-arab. (1874), by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī and Badīʻ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-ṣināʻatayn, al-kitābah wa-al-shiʻr (A.N. al-Jamāli wa-M.A. al-Khānjī, 1902), by Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAskarī and Muḥammad Amīn Khānjī (page images at HathiTrust)
AL-Mathal al-sāʼir fī adab al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Miṣrīyah, 1865), by Ḍiyā ̓al-Dīn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Athīr (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-kāmil (Maṭbaʻat al-taqaddum al-ʻilmīyah, 1905), by Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Mubarrad and ʻAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. (E. Felber, 1898), by Carl Brockelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tārīkh ādāb al-ʻArab (Maṭbaʻat al-Akhbār, 1911), by Muṣṭafá Ṣādiq Rāfiʻī (page images at HathiTrust)
Fī al-naqd al-taṭbīqī wa-al-muqāran (880-03 al-Qāhirah : Dār Nahḥat Miṣr lil-Ṭabʻ wa-al-Nashr، [1900?], 1900), by Muḥammad Ghunaymī Hilāl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Kāmil of el-Mubarrad (F.A. Brockhaus, 1874), by Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Mubarrad, M. J. de Goeje, William Wright, and Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai sur le lyrisme et la critique littéraire chez les Arabes (Jouve, 1917), by Ahmed Deif (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Qalāʼid al-dhahab fī ʻilm al-adab (880-04 Bayrūt : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Adabīyah, 1905., 1905), by Yūḥannā Ḥaddād (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Wasīṭ fī tarājim udabāʼ Shinqīṭ wa-al-kalām ʻalá tilka al-bilād ... (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Jamālīyah,1911., 1911), by Aḥmad ibn al-Amīn Shinqīṭī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Muntakhab fī tārīkh ādāb al-ʻArab (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1913), by M. ʻAṭāyā Dimashqī (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh ʻilm al-adab ʻinda al-Ifranj wa-al-ʻArab wa Fīctūr Hūkū : wa-huwa yashtamilu ʻalá muqaddimāt tārīkhīyah wa-ijtimāʻīyah fī ʻilm al-adab ʻinda al-Ifranj wa-mā yuqābiluhū min dhālika ʻinda al-ʻArab ibbāna tamaddunihim ilá ʻuṣūrihim al-wusṭá, wa-mā iqtabasahu al-Ifranj ʻanhum min al-adab wa-al-shiʻr fī nahḍatihim al-akhīrah, wakhusūsan ʻalá yad Fīctūr Hūkū, wa-yalḥaqu bi-dhālika tarjamt hādhā al-shāʻir al-faylasūf wa-waṣf manāqibihi wa-mawāhibihi wa-muʾallafātihi wa-manẓūmātihi wa-ghayr dhālik (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1912), by Rūḥī Khālidī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sinīn-i Islām : jismeṉ muḵẖtaṣir ḥāl Islām kī tārīḵẖ aur ʻilm kā īs tashrīḥ ke sāth mundarij hai ... (mat̤bʻ Inḍiyan Pablik Aupīniyan, 1871), by G.W. Leitner (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of Arabic literature (D. Appleton, 1915), by Clément Huart and Mary Loyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Qalāʾid al-dhahab fī ʻilm al-adab. (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Adabīyah, 1905), by Yūḥannā Ḥaddād (page images at HathiTrust)
La littérature arabe au XIXe siècle (Beyrouth : Imprimerie Catholique, 1924-[26], 1924), by Louis Cheikho (page images at HathiTrust)
The Irshád al-aríb ilá maʻrifat al-adíb; or, Dictionary of learned men of Yáqút. (E. J. Brill, 1907), by 1179?-1229 Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hạmawī and D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb al-irshād al-arīb ilā maʻrifat al-adīb al-maʻrūf bi-Muʻjam al-udabāʼ aw tạbaqāt al-udabāʼ, li-Yāqūt al-Rūmī. Wa-qad iʻtanā bi-naskhihi wa-tasḥị̄hịh D. S. Marjuliyūth. al-Tạbah 2. (Luzac], 1923), by 1179?-1229 Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hạmawī and D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Wasīṭ fī al-adab al-ʻArabī wa-tārīkhih (Maṭbaʻah al-Maʻārif :, 1924), by Aḥmad Iskandarī and Muṣṭafá ʻInānī (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Naqd al-adabī ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999], 1900), by Shukr Allāh Jurr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Literary History of the Arabs, by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (Gutenberg ebook)
Arabic Authors: A Manual of Arabian History and Literature, by F. F. Arbuthnot (Gutenberg ebook)

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