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<p>Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers, In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on written sources

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Author

Samer M Ali; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780268020323

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Romance, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25