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There were also, of course, many great poets. ” Rhetoric. Rhetoric included the two branches of applied rhetoric: (1) epistolography, o¯cial, and private letter-writing; and (2) oratory, including religious preaching and sermon-writing, the academic sermon, and public speeches. History. History included the diaries, annalistic histories, annalisticbiographical histories, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, chronicles, and akhbar-history, including the historical novel. Moral philosophy. Although works in the ˜eld of moral philosophy were written (for example, Avicenna’s Kitab al-barr wa-ål-ithm ‘The Book of Piety and Sin’), the majority are moral tracts.
The topic is therefore particularly apposite for this volume dedicated to a colleague known for his special interest in language. Author’s note: This essay is based on a paper of the same title delivered at the Sixth International Penn-Paris Colloquium on Humanism, Bellagio, Italy, November 27–December 2, 1989. 27 28 Michael G. Carter The secondary literature has in fact already identi˜ed four distinct kinds of Islamic humanism, namely philosophical, literary, religious, and legal humanism, to which this paper proposes to add a ˜fth, labeled for convenience intellectual humanism.
Apart from hostility on the fringe of fundamentalist Islam (particularly the Hanbalÿ Ibn Madaå al-Qurtubÿ, d. 1196), Ibn Jinnÿ was not so much refuted as merely ignored. We return to him below. 3. Literary Humanism The literary variety of humanism has long been recognized as probably closest to the humanism of Europe, with which it has several features in common. In Arkoun’s phrase, it is the product of an “aristocracy of the mind,” 6 a combination of cultural and social ideals that were acquired through a more or less formal education and exercised in the re˜ned environment of the court, the intelligentsia, and the religious dignitaries.