Al-Jāḥiẓ : in praise of books /

Al-Jāḥiẓ : in praise of books /

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Shortlisted for The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017. Introduces the writings and 'Abbasid-period textual world of Al-JĹhiz, the 'father of Arabic prose'. Al-JĹhiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wr...

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Main Authors: Montgomery, James E (James Edward), 1962- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Montgomery, James E, Montgomery, James E. (Author)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2013]
Edinburgh, Scotland : 2013
Series:Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature ; ESCAL
Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature
Subjects:
Jahiz, > -868 or 869 > Books and reading
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Books and reading
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Ḥayawān.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Books and reading
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869
J†a•hi•z, > -868 or 869 > •Hayaw†an.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Hayawān.
750-1258
Arabic literature > 750-1258 > History and criticism
Books and reading > Islamic Empire
Islamic Studies
Arabic literature
Bibliophilie
Books and reading
Intellectual life
LITERARY CRITICISM > African
Literature
RELIGION > Islam > General
Islamic Empire > Intellectual life
Islamic Empire
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc > UNAUTHORIZED
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Dictionaries
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