Question: How long does Arabic literature date back to?
About the article "Tunisia", section "Literature".

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Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers of the Arabic language.
It does not include works written using the Arabic alphabet but not in the Arabic language such as Persian and Urdu literature.
The Arabic word used for literature is "adab" which is derived from a word meaning "to invite someone for a meal" and implies politeness, culture and enrichment.
Arabic literature emerged in the 6th century, with only fragments of the written language appearing before then.
The Qur'an, from the 7th century, had the greatest and longest-lasting effect on Arabic culture and literature.
Al-Khansa, a female contemporary of Muhammad, was an acclaimed Arab poet. 
Swahili literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Swahili language particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands.
It may also refer to literature written by people who write in Swahili language.
It is an offshoot of the Bantu culture.
The first literary works date back to the beginning of the 18th century, when all Swahili literature was written in the Arabic script.
Jan Knappert considered the translation of the Arabic poem Hamziya from the year 1652 to be the earliest Swahili written text.
Starting in the 19th century, missionaries and orientalists introduced the Latin script for writing the Swahili language. 
The Arabic script is the traditional script for written Berber, and is the predominant orthography for Berber literature for the general public in Morocco.
Some Tamazight newspapers, periodicals, and magazines are written in Arabic script, although the Latin alphabet is preferred.
Islamists support the use of Arabic script, wanting Morocco to be an Islamic country that shuns Western secularism and colonial practices.
Amazigh activists, however, eschew Arabic script which is generally unpopular among Berbers who believe it is symptomatic of North African governments' pan-Arabist views.
The oldest examples of Berber written in the Arabic script date back to the 10th century, and the youngest examples of medieval Berber spelling date to the 14th century.
The spelling was remarkably consistent, unlike old orthographies for European languages, suggesting deliberate design.
Older manuscripts show more consistency, while newer ones display corruption from copying by non-Berberphones, or by speakers of Shilha who were familiar with the different Arabic orthography for Shilha that has been in use from the 16th century to the present. 
The "One Thousand and One Nights" and various tales within it make use of many innovative literary techniques, which the storytellers of the tales rely on for increased drama, suspense, or other emotions.
Some of these date back to earlier Persian, Indian and Arabic literature, while others were original to the "One Thousand and One Nights". 
The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan is a Christian extracanonical work found in Ge'ez, translated from an Arabic original and thought to date from the 5th or 6th century AD.
It does not form part of the canon of any known church, but is a late part of the broad family of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha literature which includes the "Life of Adam and Eve", "Apocalypse of Adam", "Testament of Adam" and "Books of Adam".
It does not make any claims as to its authorship, and thus is technically not "pseudepigrapha", a word meaning "falsely ascribed to an author who did not actually write it."