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The Wazir Ibn al• 'Amid, master of the diplomatic style, used to question every one whom he examined for state-service regarding his views on Baghdad and Jahiz.
6 · Abu Hayyan et• Tauhidi, perhaps the greatest master of Arabic prose, wrote a book in praise of Jahiz.
1 About 200/800 Mysticism, following the exhaustion of Arab ism, powerfully helped the popularization of letters and largely contributed-as it did in other Iiteratures too -to naturalism by despising pedantry and parade of learning, by even actually opposing it and by casting in its lot with common people.
And, indeed, only by the decline of the old Arab tradition can the introduction of rhymed prose in Muslim literature be explained.
There always were writers who, putting aside religious scruples, wrote in rhymed prose, so admired in old Arab orators.
3 The vVazir 'Ali ibn 'Isa ornaments his letters with a great deal of rhyme (Wuz, 277).
It is no accident that many W azirs of that age were masters of style, and as such their letters were deemed worthy of preservation in book-form-e-Khfisibi, Ibn Muqlah.
---- 4th/10th century the art of studied letter-writing acquires such esteem and popularity that a living could be made out of it, as it could from time immemorial out of poetry.
1 By accumulation he achieves splendid flattery, and at the same time, supplies us with a list of books out 'of which a fine rhymed letter may.