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Author(s): James E. Montgomery
ISBN(s): 9780748683321, 0748683321
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.55 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0748683321 
ISBN 13: 9780748683321
Author: James E Montgomery 

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 intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.

Al Jahiz In Praise of Books 1st Table of contents:

  • Part I: Physiognomy of An Apocalyptic Age

    • 1.1 Cataclysm
    • 1.2 Eristics and Salvation
    • 1.3 A Self-chronicling Society

  • Part II: 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 III: The Jaḥiẓian Library Under Attack

    • 3.1 Introducing the ‘Introduction’
    • 3.2 Translation
    • 3.3 Commentary
    • 3.4 The Argument

  • Part IV: The Salvific Book

    • 4.1 Biobibliographies
    • 4.2 The Form of the ‘Introduction’
    • 4.3 The Enigma of the Addressee
    • 4.4 Invective
    • 4.5 The Cohesiveness of Society
    • 4.6 An Encyclopaedia to Save Society

  • Part V: 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 VI: Appreciating Design

    • 6.1 An Eristical Contest
    • 6.2 Translation
    • 6.3 The Argument
    • 6.4 Conclusion

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