Aside from the Quran, what other works of Arabic literature are worth reading?
>>8001653
Rumi, comes to mind.
Maybe Kahlil Gibran?
>>8001653
So it's not Arabic, it's Persian, but the entire field of Rubaiyyatic studies is fantastic. (That is, the study of Omar Khayyam's Ruabaiyyat, which means 'quatrains' or 'verses'). Old Omar was a poet in like 12th century (Islamic) Persia.
Really you can't go wrong with Fitzgerald's translation at least for an aesthetic experience even if it's not a literal interpretation
>>8001653
ibn arabi
>>8001653
>Najib Mahfouz
>Al-Mutanabbi
>Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
>Salman Rushdie
>Nizar Qabbani
Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of Birds
There's one I can't remember the name of. It's the one where the Muslim guy murders a bunch of westerners, shits on free speech and individual liberties, circumcises a little girl, and rapes a woman for exposing her elbow in public, all the while the left in America praise them for being themselves.
What was the name of that book... damn, I can't remember.
>>8001653
1001 arabian nights
>>8001653
An Anthology of British Literature
>>8001653
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih.
>>8001653
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
and if Persian counts - The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hadeyat
It's a desolate region regarding literature, no matter how apologetic you try to be.
>>8001662
>Rumi
mostly wrote in Persian
ITT: Persian literature because Arabs are completely worthless
