Ebook: The Reader in Al-Jahiz : The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master
Author: Thomas Hefter
- Tags: Ja?i? -- -868 or 869 -- Criticism and interpretation., Books and reading -- Islamic Empire., Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism., Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life.
- Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Ser.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- City: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopaedist âAmr b. Baḥr al-JÃ?ḥiáºâ 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-JÃ?ḥiáºââs âepistolary monographsâ. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-JÃ?ḥiáºâ 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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