Date : 2013
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 0-7486-8332-1
ISBN : 978-0-7486-8332-1
EAN : 9780748683321
Ǧāḥiẓ -- ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al- -- 0776-0868 -- Critique et interprétation -- Histoire
Ǧāḥiẓ -- ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al- -- 0776-0868
Classification Dewey : 892.7
Collection : Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature / Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2013-
Résumé / Abstract : 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. 'In Praise of Books' explores the centrality of books to Al-Jahiz's work and to the society he lived in