Chapter One: Islamic Literature in the Middle Ages
In the early ages, literary salons were a part of the medieval Islamic culture. These salons were referred to mujalasat or mujalasa. The Mujalasat emerged in Iraq in the ninth century and greatly flourished in the tenth century (Ali, 2010). Thereafter, they spread from Iraq to the west, to Andalusian region of Spain, and ultimately to North Africa. The literary salons had an extended endurance and were part of the Islamic cultural practice well into the modern era (Ali, 2010). The Mujalasat was poetry sessions that flourished immensely particularly in the age before television had reached peoples’ living rooms. ...
