Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture : : The Making of a Tradition / / Wen-chin Ouyang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ouyang, Wen-chin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Transliterations, Translations and Dates --; Introduction --; 1 Knowledge and Cultural Dialectics --; 2 Functions of Poetry in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Society --; 3 Beginnings --; 4 Fanfare of Controversy: Abū Tammām and al-Mutanabbī --; 5 Against All Odds: The Making of a Tradition --; Conclusion --; APPENDIX I Accounts of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries --; APPENDIX II Attributes of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries --; APPENDIX III al-'Āmirī's Classification of the Sciences --; APPENDIX IV al-Ghazzālī's Classification of the Sciences --; APPENDIX V Ikhwān al-Ṣ afā's Classification of the Sciences --; APPENDIX VI Recognition of Literary Criticism in Non-critical Writings --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474471497; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474471497
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wen-chin Ouyang.

For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century).