Al-Jāḥiẓ: in praise of books / James E. Montgomery

Englisch

Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2013

VI, 586 S. ; 25 cm

Companion volume to: Al-Jāḥiẓ: in censure of books. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 534-570) and index

Rezension: James E. Montgomery, Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature) 2013, 586pp, ISBN 978 0 7486 8332 1., 2018

978-0-7486-8332-1 hbk. : £95.00

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-7486-8333-8 (Fernzugriff) webready PDF, 978-0-7486-8335-2 (Fernzugriff) epub

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*Ǧāḥiẓ, ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al- *776-869*. al- Ḥayawān

*Ǧāḥiẓ, ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al- *776-869* / Bibliophilie

*Abbasiden *749-1258* / Geistesleben / Diskurs

*Jāḥiẓ -- -868 or 869 -- Books and reading ; Jāḥiẓ -- -868 or 869 -- Ḥayawān ; Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism ; Books and reading -- Islamic Empire ; Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life ; Jāḥiẓ -868 or 869 -- Books and reading

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PJ7745.J3

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 892.7 ; 892.783409

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: CE 1150

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: EN 3111: E Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Indogermanistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen und Literaturen / EN Arabische Sprache und Literatur / Sekundärliteratur

Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. 'In Praise of Books' explores the centrality of books to Al-Jahiz's work and to the society he lived in

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