Ancients and Moderns

by Van Gelder, Geert Jan

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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 chronolo…

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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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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei930

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eng Islam

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Van Gelder, Geert Jan

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