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- Middle Period: the rise of Persian and Turkish poetry
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The modern period of Islamic literatures can be said to begin after World War II. The topics discussed before then still appeared, but outspoken social criticism became an even more important feature. Literature was no longer a leisurely pastime for members of the upper classes. Writers born in the villages and from non-privileged classes began to win literary fame through their firsthand knowledge of social problems. Many writers started their careers as journalists, developing a literary style that retained the immediacy of journalistic observation. In Egypt a great change in literary preoccupations came about after 1952. The name of Naguib ...(100 of 63390 words)