ABSTRACT
Akhl#q-i of which more will be said later in this chapter. His remarks are perfectly just; the century of Mongol devastation, the century which witnessed the end of
the caliphate, most of Persia laid waste, the sack of Baghdad, was also a period of intense intellectual and artistic activity. Some of the most prominent authors of these times have been discussed in the preceding three chapters; it is now proposed to examine briefly the writings of five more who, in this context, must be presented as minor figures but in any other century might well have held the centre of the stage.
