{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Early and Middle Periods of Islamic Art [continued (4)]}[20th April 1991]

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*‘Besides political and ethnic confusion, there was also religious and cultural confusion during the middle period. The 10^th century [ce],** for example, witnessed the transformation of the Shiite heterodoxy into a major political and possibly cultural phenomenon, while the extraordinary development taken [sic] by the personal and social mysticism known as Sufism*** modified enormously the nature of Muslim piety.

‘Culturally the most significant development was perhaps that of Persian literature **** as a highly original new verbal expression existing alongside the older Arabic literary tradition.

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**{2048[ce]U~A~896[ce]|A~1025[ce]}

cf Mid11thc[entury ce] The Great Schism between Eastern and Western Churches (2048A~1024CE)

& cf c[irca]931BCE Schism of Israel and Judah (2048A~1024BCE)

***(?cf the Sufi ‘Arc of Ascent’)

****(cf schisms above?)

#– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 84-85

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