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‘The accumulation of large amounts of material, which is carefully organised up the present, seems typical of all branches of Islamic scholarship, from theology to natural sciences. There are many minute observations and descriptions* but rarely a full view of the whole process. Later, especially in the Persian, Turkish, and Indo-Muslim areas, a tendency to **over-stress the decorative elements of prose is evident; and the contents even of official chronicles are hidden behind a network of rhymed prose, which is difficult to disentangle.

‘This tendency is illustrated in all branches of Islamic art: the lack of “architectural” *** formation.**** Instead, there is a kind of carpet-like pattern; the Arabic and Persian poem is, in general, judged not as a closed unity but according to the perfection of its individual verses.’

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***[not in architecture, presumably (& ?see ref in next fn=****]

****{cf [[Redbook9:141-147][19910420:0953z]{Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (2)]}[20th April 1991],] 142}

# – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica) 22:] 45 (which, see)

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