Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur

Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) (History of Arabic literature) is a reference work produced by the German scholar Carl Brockelmann. The work is considered a classic of Orientalist scholarship and it remains a fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature.
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. 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".
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