Kitāb ādāb al-kabīr

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Kitāb ādāb al-kabīr

work by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ

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The concept of adab
…composed a manual for secretaries, Kitāb ādāb al-kabīr (“The Major Work on Secretarial Etiquette”). At a later date, another translation movement, much encouraged by the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn, rendered much of the Hellenistic heritage from Greek, often via Syriac, into Arabic, the products of which were stored in the great…
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…composed a manual for secretaries, Kitāb ādāb al-kabīr (“The Major Work on Secretarial Etiquette”). At a later date, another translation movement, much encouraged by the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn, rendered much of the Hellenistic heritage from Greek, often via Syriac, into Arabic, the products of which were stored in the great…
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