{"id":26,"date":"2023-06-17T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=26"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:31:53","slug":"chapter-4-adab-literature-of-the-central-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/chapter\/chapter-4-adab-literature-of-the-central-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8: Adab Literature of the Central Middle East"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/elmasdshistoric00unkngoog\/page\/n6\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems <\/em>by El-Mas`udi, trans Aloys Sprenger<\/a>\r\n\r\nFor a short biography of al-Mas'udi, including a general description of\u00a0<em>Meadows of Gold<\/em>, see\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/al-Masudi\">Encyclopedia Britannica on al-Masudi<\/a>\r\n\r\nAnd for a discussion of the historical backdrop for al-Masudi's work, see\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/historyofislam.com\/contents\/the-classical-period\/al-masudi\/\">The World of al-Masudi - History of Islam.com<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/elmasdshistoric00unkngoog\/page\/n6\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems <\/em>by El-Mas`udi, trans Aloys Sprenger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a short biography of al-Mas&#8217;udi, including a general description of\u00a0<em>Meadows of Gold<\/em>, see<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/al-Masudi\">Encyclopedia Britannica on al-Masudi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for a discussion of the historical backdrop for al-Masudi&#8217;s work, see<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historyofislam.com\/contents\/the-classical-period\/al-masudi\/\">The World of al-Masudi &#8211; History of Islam.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-26","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/revisions\/300"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/premodernmiddleeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}