Features of development of the history and literature of the Arab Caliphate during the reign of the Abbasid
In the era of the Abbasids both historical literature and fiction were created, new and improved old poetic and prosaic genres appeared: qasidas, Maqam, adab, etc. At this time there was a unique book of Hilal as-Sabi "Establishment and the customs of the court of the caliphs", the only extant work describing the rules of conduct in the world, who flourished during the reign of the Abbasid dynasty. This period includes the famous fairy tales "Thousand and one nights", which became a kind of window into the mysterious world of the East and many others. The appearance of these texts is the evidence of the flowering of artistic culture in the era of VIII - XI centuries.