Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman

Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman. Khalid ibn Safwan in History and Literature by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila is an in-depth study of the eighth-century Umayyad and early Abbasid orator and courtier Khalid ibn Safwan and the development of his character in adab literature. The book collects and translates all his sayings and stories about him culled from a wide range of Arabic and Persian texts. ...