Al-Jahiz [[electronic resource] ] : In Praise of Books

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789118403321
• Autore: Montgomery James E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-7486-9507-9; 0-7486-8333-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (593 p.)
• Collana: Edinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature
• Disciplina: 800
• Soggetti: Arabic language -- Lexicography; Jāhiz, d. 868 or 9; Literature; Islamic Empire Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1 PHYSIOGNOMY OF AN APOCALYPTIC AGE ""; ""1.1 Cataclysm""; ""1.2 Eristics and Salvation""; ""1.3 A Self-chronicling Society""; ""PART 2 THE BOOK OF LIVING""; ""2.1 The Totalising Work""; ""2.2 The Treatise as Totality""; ""2.3 Parsing Totality""; ""2.4 The Articulation of The Book of Living""; ""2.5 Analogues?""; ""PART 3 THE JAHIZIAN LIBRARY UNDER ATTACK""; ""3.1 Introducing the â€?Introductionâ€?""; ""3.2 Translation""; ""3.3 Commentary""; ""3.4 The Argument ""; ""PART 4 THE SALVIFIC BOOK""; ""4.1 Biobibliographies""; ""4.2 The Form of the â€?Introductionâ€?""""4.3 The Enigma of the Addressee""; ""4.4 Invective""; ""4.5 The Cohesiveness of Society""; ""4.6 An Encyclopaedia to Save Society""; ""PART 5 THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIGN""; ""5.1 Governance of the Cosmos""; ""5.2 The Grateful Response, 1""; ""5.3 The Grateful Response, 2""; ""5.4 Obliquity""; ""Part 6 APPRECIATING DESIGN""; ""6.1 An Eristical Contest""; ""6.2 Translation""; ""6.3 The Argument""; ""6.4 Conclusion""; ""Postface""; ""Appendix: The Praise of Books ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 intellect