Brill The Raven and the Falcon: Youth Versus Old Age in Medieval Arabic Literature: 107 (Islamic History and Civilization, 107)

This book fills a long-standing gap in Arabic-Islamic studies. Hasan Shuraydi presents an in-depth survey of relevant themes that concern youth and old age in Medieval Arabic literature in an informative and entertaining style intended for specialists and non-specialists. Review "[This book] is done with great love, sympathy, and understanding, and the language, English though it is, is commensurate. It gives a wonderfully realistic view of the people and society which produced these sentiments in prose and poetry. We complained that such a book on youth and old age in Arabic did not exist--now it does. Rosenthal would have been proud of it, no doubt, and perhaps also a bit jealous." Dimitri Gutas, Yale University ".. the volume lives up to Rosenthal's masterpieces... This beautifully written volume will be easier reading for those familiar with Arabic writers and literature, but it is worth the effort for those who are not. Summing up: Recommended." S. Ward in Choice53.3 (November 2015) doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.190998 "...ein schönes Buch, das wohl auch Rosenthal gefallen hätte." Ewald Wagner in Der Islam 94.1 (2017), 304-308. DOI 10.1515/islam-2017-2018 About the Author Hasan Shuraydi, Ph.D. (1970) in Arabic-Islamic studies, Yale University. He had a career in translation/revision at the United Nations in NY and Geneva. He developed a less constrained style that suits such an apropos subject and targets a wide readership.