A History of Arabic LiteratureKhayats, 1966 - 478 pages |
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... literature under Ibn al - Sikkît , learnt mathematics , geography , astronomy , and history . He died in 895. His Kitab al - Nabát ( Book of Plants ) was not , properly speaking , a treatise on natural history , but a literary work . It ...
... literature under Ibn al - Sikkît , learnt mathematics , geography , astronomy , and history . He died in 895. His Kitab al - Nabát ( Book of Plants ) was not , properly speaking , a treatise on natural history , but a literary work . It ...
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... literature , went to Damascus , and taught there in the great Mosque of the Omeyyads . Later , he returned to Cairo , and died at Alexandria , where he had just settled , in 1249 . He wrote books which have been the subject of many ...
... literature , went to Damascus , and taught there in the great Mosque of the Omeyyads . Later , he returned to Cairo , and died at Alexandria , where he had just settled , in 1249 . He wrote books which have been the subject of many ...
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... a treatise on hygiene , and his Waft is a comprehensive treatise on geomancy . Herr Brockelmann enumerates fifty - six works from his pen . CHAPTER X ARABIC LITERATURE FROM THE CAPTURE OF BAGDAD DOWN 322 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... a treatise on hygiene , and his Waft is a comprehensive treatise on geomancy . Herr Brockelmann enumerates fifty - six works from his pen . CHAPTER X ARABIC LITERATURE FROM THE CAPTURE OF BAGDAD DOWN 322 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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