ARB 3901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ustad, State Agency For National Security, Ibn Khaldun
17 Apr 2018
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Tradition followed in the arab world is to divide arabic literature into 7 periods or ages (jahiliya, the. O(cid:374)ly (cid:271)y the(cid:373)e: poetry, prose, (cid:374)o(cid:448)els, qur"a(cid:374), et(cid:272). Toelle and zakharia: approche mixte: they do follow a chronology but they also study themes. For ex, instead of several ages, they come up with three: the golden age (500-1258), the age of decline (1258- 1798), the modern age (1798 to the present) Introduction: the previous umayyad age (661-750) was short and unstable; it faced stiff opposition and bloody confrontations. The abbasids who took power were named after their leader abul-abbas of the. Hashem clan in the quraish tribe (same clan as the prophet mohamed): abul abbas declared himself caliph in baghdad in 750, which he made the capital of the empire. They spent a lot of money on health care and natural medications: as damascus is still called the capital of the umayyads, baghdad is still called today the capital of.
