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The Reader in al-Jahiz
The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master
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English
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2014
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The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopaedist ‘Amr b. Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. Many of his most engaging writings were clearly intended for a broad readership but were presented as presented as letters to individuals. Despite the importance and quantity of these letters, surprisingly little academic notice has been paid to them. Now, Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ’s ‘epistolary monographs’. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1. The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing
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2. Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody
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3. Undisclosed Origins and Homelands
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4. Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ
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5. Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abū al-ʿĀṣ/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
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February 21, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780748692750
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288
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9780748692750
Keywords for this book
Islamic Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
