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L'essere maġribī tra marginalità e tamyīz. Il caso degli al-Baybānī a Damasco.

2013

The two main Arab-Islamic areas of Magrib and Masriq, although one could well distinguish them geographically, should not be considered as separated entities, both from a historical and a cultural point of view, but as two interconnected areas. This mainly depends on the unfailing flow of 'ulama' travelling from one area to the other, due to their willing of learning and at the same time transmitting their knowledge. Most 19th century Arabic biographical literature represents in this sense an essential source witnessing the important contribution which many 'ulama' magariba gave to a social as well as cultural process of progressive integration and development. In a more specific way, the c…