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A broad history of Arabic literature, Clément Huart’s volume introduces writers and literary forms across successive periods, giving readers an overview of the tradition. Abu Tammam appears as both a poet and an anthologist, whose collection earned praise surpassing that given to his own verse. In Córdoba, Ibn Abd Rabbihi’s anthology is organized as a necklace of twenty-five chapters, with the central one enlarged as its chief ornament. Huart moves from brief biographies to accounts of books and their settings, offering a guide to literary history rather than close readings.
