This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... II. ON THE ARABIAN OE SARACENIC LEARNING. A general view--The Saracens establish themselves in Africa and Spain--They encourage letters--Their grammar--Eloquence--Poetry--Philology--Lexicographers--Philosophy--Ethics and asceticism--Medicine Natural History--Mathematics--Geography--History--The fall ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... II. ON THE ARABIAN OE SARACENIC LEARNING. A general view--The Saracens establish themselves in Africa and Spain--They encourage letters--Their grammar--Eloquence--Poetry--Philology--Lexicographers--Philosophy--Ethics and asceticism--Medicine Natural History--Mathematics--Geography--History--The fall of Granada, the last Moorish settlement--And of the Caliphate--The three Arabian historians--Conclusion. As the sketch which I shall now attempt to give of Arabian literature is, in its commencement, contemporary with the most forlorn era of which I have treated in the preceding work, particularly under the Lombard government in Italy, I must request that the reader will kindly look back to that portion of my history. When we consider the desolating policy which inspired the plans of the followers of Mahomet, and the fanaticism by which they were achieved, the last wonder to be expected was, the cultivation of learning and the gentle arts of peace. One hundred years after the flight of the prophet from Mecca to Medina, which was in 622, and is the first year of the Hegira, the arms and dominions of his successors extended from India to the Atlantic ocean, over the various and distant provinces, which may be comprised under the general names of Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa, and Spain. In the earliest accounts of the Arabias, the native inhabitants are said to have possessed a taste for letters, considered as restricted principally to eloquence and poetry; and great praise is bestowed upon the force and the harmony of their language: but when we are told that they had fourscore words to signify honey, two hundred a serpent, five hundred a lion,1 a thousand a sword, and to illustrate 1 M. Grangeret de la Grange, a learned Orientalist, informs me...
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Add this copy of The Literary History of the Middle Ages to cart. $67.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Literary History of the Middle Ages to cart. $67.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
