| Description |
1 online resource (256 p.) |
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text file PDF |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliterations, Translations and Dates -- Introduction -- 1 Knowledge and Cultural Dialectics -- 2 Functions of Poetry in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Society -- 3 Beginnings -- 4 Fanfare of Controversy: Abū Tammām and al-Mutanabbī -- 5 Against All Odds: The Making of a Tradition -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I Accounts of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX II Attributes of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX III al-'Āmirī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX IV al-Ghazzālī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX V Ikhwān al-Ṣ afā's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX VI Recognition of Literary Criticism in Non-critical Writings -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century). |
| Language |
In English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Criticism -- Islamic Empire.
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Critics -- Islamic Empire -- Biography.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. |
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Criticism |
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Critics |
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Islamic Empire |
| Chronological Term |
750-1258 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
1474471498 |
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9781474471497 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781474471497 |
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