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alusur-6853	Toral-Niehoff, Isabel 	Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih*	2018-11-15	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8086	445	60	89 • Isabel Toral-NIehoff Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018) that are organized following a systematic and scientific epistemology of knowledge (inspired by Greek models and philosophy, still in statu nascendi then in al-Andalus),41 the ʿIqd is arranged in accordance with thematic clusters that follow a descending hierarchy of knowledge (descensus).42 The systematic structure of the ʿIqd also made it very manageable, so that later authors like al-Nuwayrī and al-Qalqashandī were able to easily excerpt whole books from the ʿIqd for their own works.43 The ʿIqd reflects a broad curriculum that includes, for example, knowledge of statecraft, the military, diplomacy, courtly etiquette, literature, poetry, history, and diverse witty anecdotes; this suggests that it encompassed the broad base of knowledge that a cultivated member of the courtly elite in Cordoba would be expected to have. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 80-95 Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih* Isabel Toral-NIehoff Freie Universität Berlin (itoral@zedat.fu-berlin.de)	cache/alusur-6853.pdf	txt/alusur-6853.txt