Anthologies, Arabic literature (post-Mongol period) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
Leiden
Brill
(2,775 words)
The time of the so-called "Sunnī revival," which had its origins in the ascent of the Saljūqs around the middle of the fifth/eleventh century, can be considered the beginning of a period of crisis for Arabic literature. At that time, those Eastern regions that had provided a most fertile ground for Arabic literature in the centuries before began to adopt Persian in place of Arabic as the preferred language of literature. Neither Fāṭimid Egypt, where an Arabic literary culture was still in a formative state, nor Syria, which