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 Re- 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 PJ 408 .S3 1917 v5 Copy! "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 INTRODUCTION-The Last Semitic Conquerors, the Arabs: The Sudden Blossoming of their Litera- II. THE POEM OF IMRU-UL-QUAIS (530 A.D.?) III. THE POEM OF ANTAR (580 a.d.?). |