Background topics / A.F.L. Beeston
Pre-Islamic poetry / Abdullah El Tayib
Early Arabic prose / R.B. Serjeant
The beginnings of Arabic prose literature : the epistolary genre / J.D. Latham
The role of parallelism in Arabic prose / A.F.L. Beeston
The Qur'ān-I / R. Paret
The Qur'ān-II / A. Jones
Qisas elements in the Qur'ān / H.T. Norris
Aspects of the Qur'ān today / Jaques Jomier
Hadīth literature-I : the development of the science of Hadīth / Muhammad Abdul Rauf
Hadīth literature-II : collection and transmission of Hadīth / Nabia Abbott
Shīʻī Hadīth / E. Kohlberg
Narrative elements in the Hadīth literature / Sahair El Calamawy.
(Cont.) European criticism of Hadīth literature / N.J. Coulson
The impact of the Qur'ān and Hadīth on medieval Arabic literature / A.M. Zubaidi
The Maghāzī literature / J.M.B. Jones
The Sīrah literature / M.J. Kister
The poetry of the Sīrah literature / James T. Monroe
Fables and legends in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times / H.T. Norris
Umayyad poetry / Salma K. Jayyusi
Music and verse / O. Wright
The Greek impact on Arabic literature / L.E. Goodman
The Persian impact on Arabic literature / C.E. Bosworth
The Syrian impact on Arabic literature / R.Y. Ebied.