al-Qāḍī, Wadād

Abū Yaḥyā (or Abū Ghālib) ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā b. Saʿd (or Saʿīd) al-Kātib al-ʿĀmirī (c. 69–132/c. 688–750) was one of the earliest epistolographers in Arabic, to whom tradition attributed the foundation of Arabic literary prose. A third-generation Muslim of non-Arab, probably…

Iḥsān ʿAbbās (1920–2003) was the most influential, prolific, and internationally recognised Arab educator and scholar of Arabic literature in the second half of the twentieth century. His works laid the foundation for the systematic study of Andalusian literature, the scientific…