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Muhsin al-Musawi @Columbia on Islamic #RepublicofLetters @UNDPress on pre-modern #ArabicCosmopolis and the role of literature, grammar, theology and lexicography 
Provides further evidence of literary and intellectual creativity that questions old #nahda polemics as well as #decadence and #decline narratives
Of course a reasonable question might be whether in our debunking of the decline thesis we have overcompensated? Not all thought, composition and literary endeavour in the later period was awesome and amazing
