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‘It was not until the Abbasids assumed power in 750,* settling in Baghdad, that the golden age of Arabic literature began. The influx of foreign elements added new colour to cultural and literary life. Hellenistic thought and the influence of the ancient cultures of the Near East, for example, contributed to the rapid intellectual growth of the Muslim community. Its members, seized with insatiable intellectual curiosity, began to adapt elements from all the earlier high cultures and to incorporate them into their own. They thus created the wonderful fabric of Islamic culture that was so much admired in the Middle Ages. Indian and Iranian threads were woven into this fabric, and a new sensitivity to beauty in the field of poetry and the fine arts was cultivated.’

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**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 51

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