Download or read book Abbasid Belles Lettres written by Julia Ashtiany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD.