Arabic Influences on Chaucer: Speculative Essays on a Study of a Literary Relationship

Author / Editor
Halaby, Raouf Jamil.

Title
Arabic Influences on Chaucer: Speculative Essays on a Study of a Literary Relationship

Published
DAI 34.09 (1974): 5911-12A.

Description
Describes how Arabic writing "bridged" Hellenic tradition and medieval philosophy, how Arabic science influenced Western civilization, how Arabic literature influenced portion of CT, and how courtly love in TC may reflect the influence of Ibn Hazan's "Tawq al-Hamama" ("The Ring of the Dove").

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General
Troilus and Criseyde