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... Arabs ( 2nd ed . , Cambridge , 1930 ) , 11-13 , 144-47 , 241-50 , 344-56 , 435-41 , 452-54 ; H. A. R. Gibb , Arabic Literature , an Introduction ( London , 1926 ) ; D. S. Margoliouth , Lectures on Arabic Historians ( Calcutta , 1930 ) ...
... Arabs ( 2nd ed . , Cambridge , 1930 ) , 11-13 , 144-47 , 241-50 , 344-56 , 435-41 , 452-54 ; H. A. R. Gibb , Arabic Literature , an Introduction ( London , 1926 ) ; D. S. Margoliouth , Lectures on Arabic Historians ( Calcutta , 1930 ) ...
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... Arabic language , both for political and for pious ends , was eagerly studied by the intelligentsia of the country . The people , of course , continued to speak their own vernacular ; but only by slow degrees was advantage taken of the ...
... Arabic language , both for political and for pious ends , was eagerly studied by the intelligentsia of the country . The people , of course , continued to speak their own vernacular ; but only by slow degrees was advantage taken of the ...
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... Arabic language as a medium of literary expression , even among non - Arabs and non - Muslims . We find many Persians and not a few Christian historians , but each and all wrote in the Arabic tongue . The prevalence and the sacrosanct ...
... Arabic language as a medium of literary expression , even among non - Arabs and non - Muslims . We find many Persians and not a few Christian historians , but each and all wrote in the Arabic tongue . The prevalence and the sacrosanct ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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