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.)

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).

Table of Contents

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