Muslim Empire Literature-
The book of One thousand and One nights
-west and south asian stories and folktales
-arabian nights
-tales- ancient and medieval times
--arabic persian egyptian and mesopta ian folklore
-shows the growing of the urban islamic culture through variety and complexity
-begins and corruption and ends with redemption
-persian king and new bride
-executed her because of her secret
-the king marrys virgins and the executes them the next morning before they became dishonest
-the last woman kept telling good stories and she wouldnt finish them so he couldnt kill her
-lasted for 1001 nights
Authors
-hanan al-shaykh wrote the book of 1001 nights
- shahnameh ferdowsi was a poet
-considered to be one of the greatest poets
- wrote THE SHAHNAMEH a set of epic poems
-written in persian
-Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, also know as Al-Razi, wrote Kitab al-Mansuri fi Al-tibb
(the book of Medicine for Mansur)
-He was also philosopher during the 8th cen.
-He was one of Muhammands companions
Genres
-poetry
--They rhymed most of the time
--for centuries it used traditional, rigid and distinctive for in stylized way
-novels short stories and drams didnt show up in the islamic world until modern period
-Chief literary types
-head chief type was the maquamah
-the qasida was developed by pre islamic arabh
-Ghazel
--love lyric from 5 to 12 verses
-Quitah used for less serious everyday life
-masnavi it means the doubled one or rhyming couplet
-maqamah tells simple and entertaining stories in a complicated way
Morals and Message
-believed in worshiping one god Allah
-treat others how you want to be treated
-muslims participate in ramadan which is held the same month the qur'an came out
-muslims are to obey allah and the prophets muhammads word
-to do good deeds for the community
Muslim Empire Math and Science
-Al-Khwarizmi --was born befreo 780 in baghdad iraq and died before 850 was a mathematiciand and astronomer who invented the hindu-arabic numerals
-Ibn first scientist and fatehr of optics
-born in basra iraq in 965
-made great contributions to science
-named the physicist in medieval europe
-mist famous book was book of optics
-was a seven volume book on the experiments that he preformed
Astronomy
-found a huge amount of stars aldebaran -altair
-muslims pray before daybreak and before down to predict planetary positions and eclipses
Al-jabr
-made algebra refers to the process of moving subtracted quantity to the other side of an equation
Optics
-made the camera
-created a system for adding the first natural 100 numbers
-introduced motion and transformation into geometry
- his work
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