The Earliest "Nabita" and the Paradigmatic "Nawabit"

Abstract

The enigmatic has intrigued several scholars since the end of the nineteenth century, when G. Van Vloten published the text of the most copious epistle on this subject, al-Jahiz's Risala fi al-nabita. (1) After a century of work, we know now much more about the third/ninth century of al-J~hiz, and that thanks to the efforts of scholars working on the Nabita proper, (2) as well as those working on the so-called IHashwiyya, (3) and, lately, on the Nawabit of al-Farabi and Ibn B~jja, (4) in addition to

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