ISLAMIC INNOVATIONS

THE ART OF BOOKMAKING

• Muslims learned how to make paper from the chinese
• Soon the muslims began to make bound books
• This lead to the growth of muslim literature

GROWTH IN MUSLIM LITERATURE

• Muslims sold many volumes of poetry and prose
• Poetry honored love, praised rulers, or celebrated wit
• Pesian poems were long and told a story
• Prose replaced poetry to record historical events
• Stories were sometimes written in prose

ARABS HAD A RICH HERITAGE OF STORYTELLING AND POETRY

• Stories were written down in books
• Soon books contianed stories from foreign countries
• One famous collection of stories is titled Thousand and one nights
• A european translator added stories
• Aladdin’s magic lamp, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor

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