Erscheint: Dezember 2026
Buch (Softcover): Fachbuch
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Verlag:
Edinburgh University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36572037
EAN: 9781399577557
Erscheint: Dezember 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 60.–
Beschreibung
Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. 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. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- James E Montgomery
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 592