Epistolary Literature.. Selections from the Arab Heritage

Ancient Arabic literature knew what is called (letter literature), and it appeared from an early time, before the Arab world knew postal institutions, and some of the most famous letters date back to the early years after the emergence of Islam, and even before their appearance in a more developed form under the successive Islamic caliphate states, but What happened after the emergence of postal institutions in the Arab world at the beginning of the last century, is that these institutions had a great impact on the spread of (letter literature), especially with the keenness of some of the most famous writers in the history of Arabic literature to correspond with each other, which is what publishers turned to early in the Century In the past, they also paid attention to the importance of publishing the messages that writers and celebrities used to publish to their wives or those with whom they had a friendship or a close personal relationship.