ABSTRACT
The party of the Shu'ubiyya shows in the very name which it probably gave itself, what it considered as the centre of its party platform and where it placed the weight of its opposition to others. The manifestations of this national renaissance offered a firm background for the literary battle of Muslim Persians against Arabs, which was sponsored by the Shu'ubiyya movement. It is not astonishing that the literature of the Shu'ubiyya has survived only in rare traces and relics, though these are very characteristic of their kind. Al-Jahiz quotes other points from the polemic of the Shu'ubiyya against the Arabs. In the literary activity of this movement, directed at achieving equal status in Islam for the non-Arab nations, the greatest part was undoubtedly taken by the Muslims of Persian race. It is not astonishing that the literature of the Shu'ubiyya has survived only in rare traces and relics, though these are very characteristic of their kind.
