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Page 190
... style of life which they shared with the nomadic Beduin . They were as proud of it as they were of the resources of their own language – a language formed by epic poetry , and ideally suited to a tribal environ- ment ; it was a style of ...
... style of life which they shared with the nomadic Beduin . They were as proud of it as they were of the resources of their own language – a language formed by epic poetry , and ideally suited to a tribal environ- ment ; it was a style of ...
Page 191
... style of life was losing its hold on the nouveaux riches of the merchant- dynasties . Private and public standards of behaviour were being torn apart by new wealth , new opportunities and new ideas . Faced by this situation , Muhammad ...
... style of life was losing its hold on the nouveaux riches of the merchant- dynasties . Private and public standards of behaviour were being torn apart by new wealth , new opportunities and new ideas . Faced by this situation , Muhammad ...
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... style of living ' like a man ' , lightly Islamized , absorbed and remodelled the educated classes of the early medieval Near East . The style of life 129 Late Antiquity surviving . A mosaic from the Umayyad 'A garden protected by our ...
... style of living ' like a man ' , lightly Islamized , absorbed and remodelled the educated classes of the early medieval Near East . The style of life 129 Late Antiquity surviving . A mosaic from the Umayyad 'A garden protected by our ...
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