Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights
CHAPTER VI.
LITERATURE.
The Heroic Age--´Okáḍh--The Ḳur-án--The Middle Age--Corrupt dialects--´Abd-el-Melik--Hároon Er-Rasheed and Abu-l´Atáhiyeh--The Barmekees--Dresses of honour--Two items in Hároon's account book--Rewards to poets--Ḥammád's good fortune--Reception of Greek ambassadors by a Khaleefeh--A niggardly king outwitted--The decline of Arabian literature--Letters--The language of flowers, and emblematical conversation--Secret signs--El-Mutanebbee's warning--The language of birds and beasts 109