TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hefter,Thomas
TI  - The Reader in al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master 
T2  - Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature : ESCAL
SN  - 9780748692743
U1  - 306.09 22/ger
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Islamic Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing --; 2. Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody --; 3. Undisclosed Origins and Homelands --; 4. Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ --; 5. Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abū al-ʿĀṣ/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jāḥiẓ in his lettersGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692743','ISBN:9780748692750']);The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopaedist 'Amr b. Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ 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 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-Jāḥiẓ's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.Key FeaturesLooks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating beverages and daily lifeRelates al-Jāḥiẓ's experiments with the letter frame to his views on occupations, human geography and other issues of his dayExamines the role of self-parody in al-Jāḥiẓ's fictional conversations with his addresseesExplores the rich interplay of contending voices"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748692750
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748692750
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748692750/original
ER  -