Al-Jahiz : : In Praise of Books / / James E. Montgomery.

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature : ESCAL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 p.)
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