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Item Details
Title:
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IBN ABI TAHIR TAYFUR AND ARABIC WRITERLY CULTURE
A NINTH CENTURY BOOKMAN IN BAGHDAD |
By: |
Shawkat M. Toorawa |
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Electronic book text |
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£26.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1134430507 |
ISBN 13: |
9781134430505 |
Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 2004 |
Series: |
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures |
Synopsis: |
Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Routledge |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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