Aspects of this topic are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
...into the life of various strata of society during the 9th century have rightly attracted the special interest of Western scholars. Less impressive, but almost as multifaceted, are the treatises of Ibn Abī ad-Dunyā (died 894).
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