LITERATURE OF THE EAST

VOLUME V

ANCIENT ARABIA

THE HANGED POEMS

THE KORAN

In Translations by

Captain F. E. JOHNSON, R.A., and GEORGE SALE, Esq., with Revisions and Explanatory Essay by SHEIK FAIZ-ULLAH-BHAI, Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam.

With a Brief Bibliography by

CHARLES C. TORREY, D.D.,

Professor of Semitic Languages at Yale University.

With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, Inc.
NEW YORK
LONDON

HARVARD COLLEGE

OCT 16 1920
LIBRARY

Wales fund

"Let there be light."-GENESIS I, 3.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever

really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man."-MAX MÜLLER.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V

ANCIENT ARABIA

INTRODUCTION—The Last Semitic Conquerors, the

Arabs: The Sudden Blossoming of their Litera-

ture

I. THE GENIUS OF ARABIC LITERATURE, by Sheik
Faiz-ullah-bhai

THE HANGED POEMS

II. THE POEM OF IMRU-UL-QUAIS (530 A.D.?)
III.-THE POEM OF ANTAR (580 A.D.?).
IV. THE POEM OF ZUHAIR (590 A.D.?)