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| | Arabic literature on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The first significant Arabic literature was produced during the medieval golden age of lyric poetry, from the 4th to the 7th cent. |
 | | The next great period of Arabic literature was a result of the rise of the new Arabic-Persian culture of Baghdad, the new capital of the Abbasids, in the 8th and 9th cent. |
 | | Notable 20th-century writers in Arabic include the novelist Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the playwrights Ahmad Shawqi and Tawfiq al-Hakim, the poets Hafiz Ibrahim, Badr Shakir as-Sayyab, Nazik al-Malaikah, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, Mahmoud Darwish, and Adonis, and the short-story writer Mahmud Tymur. |
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