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" Ancients and Moderns - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Gelder, Geert Jan
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AL
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English
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1060533
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ALei930
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van Gelder, Geert Jan
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Ancients and Moderns - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Gelder, Geert Jan
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(617 words)
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Ancients and Moderns is a topic in Arabic literary history dealing with the merits of, on the one hand, the early poets (al-qudamāʾ, al-mutaqaddimūn) , including the pre-Islamic (jāhilī) and early Islamic poets until around the middle of the second/eighth century, and, on the other hand, the “moderns” (muḥdathūn) , Bashshār b. Burd (d. 167/783) being their earliest important representative. Since the “modern” period continued for many centuries, it was sometimes subdivided, without any chronological precision or uniformity, using terms such as muwalladūn (literally, “of mixed descent,”
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Islam.
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ALei930.pdf
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