"As a literary monument the Koran thus stands by itself, a production unique in Arabic literature, having neither forerunners nor successors in its own idiom. Muslims of all ages are united in proclaiming the inimitability not only of its contents but of its style."
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University of Oxford facultyHistorians from ScotlandHarvard University facultyOrientalistsPeople from Alexandria
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Arabic Literature, An Introduction (1926), Clarendon Press, 1963, p. 36.
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H. A. R. Gibb
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (2 January 1895 – 22 October 1971), known as H. A. R. Gibb, was a Scottish historian of Orientalism.
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