0 works of literature that are beautiful and pleasing in an artistic way, rather than being very serious or full of information
The piety of ahl al-adab, cultivators of belles-lettres, is another to be distinguished from that of the hadith folk.
As for the science of belles-lettres (adab), he is the ultimate authority.
His lecture topics included rhetoric and "belles-lettres", and later the subject of the progress of opulence.
The expression of belles-lettres in architecture demands a more purely classic character than that of scientific studies.
Upon the completion of his studies, he was engaged for eleven years in teaching belles-lettres and rhetoric and became widely known as a classical scholar.
In a narrower sense it means belles-lettres, writings done with a purpose of entermainment, leisure, self-expression, and so on, like poems, novels, letters, or diaries.
A writer of "belles-lettres" is a belletrist.
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".
