8vo. 412 pp., publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, index, P.I.F.D. 189, copy in mint condition, Institut Français de Damas, 2001.

Synopsis

An academic study discussing literary life in Al-Andalus under Muluk Al-Tawa’if during the eleventh century. The beginning of the decline of Umayyad Caliphate started during that period, and the civil war started between the mini Arab states. During that period many Andalusian writers and poets produced their best works.