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Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture : The Making of a Tradition / Wen-chin Ouyang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748608973
  • 9781474471497
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892.7/090034 21
LOC classification:
  • PJ7507 .O88 1997
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliterations, Translations and Dates -- Introduction -- 1 Knowledge and Cultural Dialectics -- 2 Functions of Poetry in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Society -- 3 Beginnings -- 4 Fanfare of Controversy: Abū Tammām and al-Mutanabbī -- 5 Against All Odds: The Making of a Tradition -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I Accounts of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX II Attributes of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX III al-'Āmirī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX IV al-Ghazzālī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX V Ikhwān al-Ṣ afā's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX VI Recognition of Literary Criticism in Non-critical Writings -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century).
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliterations, Translations and Dates -- Introduction -- 1 Knowledge and Cultural Dialectics -- 2 Functions of Poetry in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Society -- 3 Beginnings -- 4 Fanfare of Controversy: Abū Tammām and al-Mutanabbī -- 5 Against All Odds: The Making of a Tradition -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I Accounts of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX II Attributes of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries -- APPENDIX III al-'Āmirī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX IV al-Ghazzālī's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX V Ikhwān al-Ṣ afā's Classification of the Sciences -- APPENDIX VI Recognition of Literary Criticism in Non-critical Writings -- Bibliography -- Index

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For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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