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Literature: Prehistory to 1250: Middle East

By: Asaad Al-Saleh
In: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt & Carolyn M. Elliott
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Area Studies (general), Social & Cultural Anthropology
Keywords:Abbasid Caliphate; anthologies; biblical literature; caliphates; gods; poetry; world literature

The Middle East is the region where the first world literature was inscribed in cuneiform script, or wedge-shaped symbols impressed on clay tablets. Mesopotamians invented writing about 3000 B.C.E. to substitute for human memory for recording administrative transactions. As the ...

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  Al-Saleh, A. (2012). Literature: prehistory to 1250: middle east. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. I75-I76). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n37
  
  Al-Saleh, A. (2012). Literature: prehistory to 1250: middle east. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. I75-I76). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n37
  
  Al-Saleh, A. (2012). Literature: prehistory to 1250: middle east. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. I75-I76). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n37
  
  Al-Saleh, A. (2012). Literature: prehistory to 1250: middle east. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. I75-I76). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n37
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