The piety of ahl al-adab, cultivators ofbelles-lettres, is another to be distinguished from that of the hadith folk.
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As for the science ofbelles-lettres(adab), he is the ultimate authority.
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His lecture topics included rhetoric and "belles-lettres", and later the subject of the progress of opulence.
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The expression ofbelles-lettresin architecture demands a more purely classic character than that of scientific studies.
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Upon the completion of his studies, he was engaged for eleven years in teachingbelles-lettresand rhetoric and became widely known as a classical scholar.
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In a narrower sense it meansbelles-lettres, writings done with a purpose of entermainment, leisure, self-expression, and so on, like poems, novels, letters, or diaries.
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A writer of "belles-lettres" is a belletrist.
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At the beginning of the 16th century, printing had created a special demand for books that were neither simply published for the nonacademic audience nor explicitly scientific literature, but "belles-lettres".
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