The First Abbasid Era - History of Arabic Literature

The book / The Abbasid Era First - History of Arabic Literature, by the author / Shawqi Dhayf, reviews the political, social, and mental life in the Abbasid Era First, with an analysis of the Abbasid Revolution and the construction of Baghdad and Samarra, and the political and administrative systems. It highlights social life from civilization, luxury, and asceticism, and the scientific movement and linguistic and religious sciences. It presents the development of poetry and its figures from Bashar and Abu Nuwas to Abu Tammam, and analyzes poets of politics, love, asceticism, and indulgence. It also discusses the development of prose and its arts, and the most important literary figures like Ibn al-Muqaffa and Ibn al-Zayyat, providing a comprehensive view of the development of Arabic literature in the Abbasid Era First.