The Abbasid “Golden Age”: An Excavation
The application of a Hegelian rise-and-fall narrative to the history of Arabic literature has been erroneously attributed to Ibn Khaldūn and his successors, though it can more probably be traced back to Hammer-Purgstall’s Literaturgeschichte der Araber (1850). Although this paradigm has long been ou...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Al-'Usur al-Wusta |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/6998 |