Reader in al-Jahiz PDF book is popular Literary Criticism book written by Thomas Hefter. The book was released by Edinburgh University Press on 2014-05-16 with total hardcover pages 288. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Reader in al-Jahiz by Thomas Hefter in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopedist 'Amr b. Bahr al-Ja
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, '
This title looks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era, that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating bev
Al-Jahiz (d.868/869 A.D.) was a master of Arabic prose and a major influence on modern Arabic literature. A theologian with a huge vocabulary and a well develop
This book is a translation, accurate and readable, of one of the wittiest pieces of medieval Arabic prose — Abu ‘Uthman al-Jahiz’s Avarice and the Avarici
