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Author:

Hefter, Thomas H., author.

Title:

The reader in al-Jāḥiẓ : the epistolary rhetoric of an Arabic prose master / Thomas Hefter.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

277 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jāḥiẓ,---868 or 869--Criticism and interpretation.
Jāḥiẓ,---868 or 869--Technique.
Books and reading--Islamic Empire.
Arabic literature--750-1258--History and criticism.
Islamic Empire--Intellectual life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index.

Summary:

Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's "epistolary monographs." By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature

ISBN:

0748692746
9780748692743

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866619830

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)