Literature
The
adventurous legend, "Aladdin," "Sinbad
the Sailor," and "Ali Baba." (700-1200)
are direct reflection of the enormous culture of trade
of the Golden Web and the importance of the two cities,
Baghdad and Busra to this maritime.
These
adventurous legend are only few of the many Arabian Nights
that were the main entertainment media then and continued
to be so well into our modern times.
Abbasid
writers also developed new a genres of literature such
as adab, the embodiment of sensible counsel, sometimes
in the form of animal fables; a typical example is Kalilah
wa-Dimnah, translated by Ibn al-Muqaffa' from a Pahlavi
version of an Indian work. Writers of this period also
studied tribal traditions and wrote the first systematic
Arabic grammars.
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