Classical Arabic Philology and Poetry ― A Bibliographical Handbook of Important Editions from 1960 to 2000

Featuring some 1300 authors and 4000 text editions, Wiepert's (Semitic philology, U. of Munich) handbook serves as a supplement to Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur and to Sezgin's Geschicte des Arabischen Schrifttums , and as a basic source of information for Arabists and scholars of other Semitic languages and literatures. The text is grouped into sections of authors and their works, anonymous writings and collected texts, poets, and anonymous poems and collections. Entries include the full name of the author, who is listed according to his suhra , the year of his death (and birth, if known), his books, the number of volumes, the name(s) of his editor(s), the place and date of printing, and the series. Indexed by title, transmitters and commentators, and editors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reinhard Weipert, Ph.D. (1977) in Semitic studies, University of Munich, is Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Munich. He has published extensively on Classical Arabic philological literature and has edited the poetry of al-Ra^ci al-Numayri as well as the poetical remains of some minor poets. He is contributor to the Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography for Classical and Modern Arabic since 1985 and for Berber languages since 1996.