LEADER 03588nam  22006253u 450 
001 9910975276003321
005 20250513132043.0
010   $a0-7486-9507-9
010   $a0-7486-8333-X
024 7 $a10.1515/9780748683338
024 7 $a10.3366/edinburgh/9780748683321.001.0001
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 $eIn Praise of Books
210  1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2013]
210  4$dİ2013
215   $a1 online resource (593 p.)
225 1 $aEdinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$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   $aEdinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellect
410  0$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$g(James Edward),$f1962-$01818149
801  0$bAU-PeEL
801  1$bAU-PeEL
801  2$bAU-PeEL
801  2$bUkOxU
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910975276003321
996   $aAl-Jahiz$94377162
997   $aUNINA