Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
James E. (The Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arab, University of Cambridge) Montgomery
Edinburgh University Press, 2013
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Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. 'In Praise of Books' explores the centrality of books to Al-Jahiz’s work and to the society he lived in.
- ISBN-13
- 9780748683321
- ISBN-10
- 0748683321
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-11-13
- Pages
- 592
- Dimensions
- 162x240x38
- Weight
- 1116