Literary guidance

This book offers rich material for the student of literature and the Arab intellectual in introducing literature and its types and sections of poetry and prose, then introducing Greek and modern philosophy, the science of Kalam, and Islamic philosophy, with an explanation of its most important topics, then introducing history among the Greeks and Romans, and the relationship of all that with Arab literature. Then foreign literatures: Greek, Persian, and Indian, which connected with Arab literature, and the influence of Arab literature on modern European literature, and how European literature connected with modern Arab writers and influenced their poetry and prose. All this and more is presented in this book, which was authored by a group of Arab literature scholars in Egypt, and they aimed for ease of expression and simplification of explanation to suit the reader who has not previously read about Arab literature and its connection with other sciences and arts, its influence on them, and its mutual influence.