History of the Arabic Written Tradition

History of the Arabic Written Tradition (German: Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, or GAL) is a reference work produced by the German scholar Carl Brockelmann and first published in two editions by Brill in Leiden in 1898 and 1902. His survey was limited to works written in Arabic and included only extant titles; writings by Muslim authors in other languages and works known solely through quotations or references were excluded, as were titles by non-Muslim authors.

It lists around 25,000 individual works by some 18,000 authors from the Arabic literary tradition. Over the years other academics would add volumes to the work, for example Fuat Sezgin has updated Brockelmann's list by adding some 12,000 titles and 9,000 writers.