LEADER 03511nam 22006013u 450 001 9910789118403321 005 20230803034458.0 010 $a0-7486-9507-9 010 $a0-7486-8333-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748683338 035 $a(CKB)3710000000087742 035 $a(EBL)1630418 035 $a(OCoLC)874157150 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000237315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1630418 035 $a(DE-B1597)615765 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748683338 035 $a(OCoLC)1291508870 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000087742 100 $a20151026d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAl-Jahiz$b[electronic resource] $eIn Praise of Books 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (593 p.) 225 1 $aEdinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-8332-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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 a???Introductiona???""; ""3.2 Translation""; ""3.3 Commentary""; ""3.4 The Argument ""; ""PART 4 THE SALVIFIC BOOK""; ""4.1 Biobibliographies"" 327 $a""4.2 The Form of the a???Introductiona???""""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"" 330 $a Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellect 410 0$aEdinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature. 606 $aArabic language -- Lexicography 606 $aJa?hiz, d. 868 or 9 606 $aLiterature 607 $aIslamic Empire$xIntellectual life 615 4$aArabic language -- Lexicography. 615 4$aJa?hiz, d. 868 or 9. 615 4$aLiterature. 676 $a800 700 $aMontgomery$b James E$0661477 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789118403321 996 $aAl-Jahiz$93737690 997 $aUNINA