Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature – serie
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Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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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, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's …
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
E-bok, 2013
615 kr
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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, ''In Praise of Books'', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz''s …
Reader in al-Jahiz
The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master
Inbunden, 2014
1531 kr
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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 presented as letters to individuals. Despite the …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes
E-bok, 2016
496 kr
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume II: The Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Texts, Sources and Authorities
Inbunden, 2016
1624 kr
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume II: The Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Texts, Sources and Authorities
Av L. Marlow
E-bok, 2016
543 kr
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Classical Arabic literature is central to Arabic-Islamic culture and provides important pathways to a more grounded and nuanced understanding of Islam, the world it created and the civilisation it spawned. It has thus far been studied as driven by poetry and the demands of a secular court culture. …
Lives in Adab
Essays in Honour of Julia Bray
Av Alexander Key, Letizia Osti
Inbunden, 2026
2186 kr
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Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in Arabic. The collaboration is …
Lives in Adab
Essays in Honour of Julia Bray
Av Alexander Key, Letizia Osti
E-bok, 2026
1633 kr
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Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in Arabic. The collaboration is …
Lives in Adab
Essays in Honour of Julia Bray
Av Alexander Key, Letizia Osti
E-bok, 2026
1669 kr
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Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in Arabic. The collaboration is …
Reader in al-Jahiz
The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master
Häftad, 2026
352 kr
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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 presented as letters to individuals. Despite the …
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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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, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's …
Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim
A Literary Banquet
Av Emily Selove
Inbunden, 2016
1721 kr
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Ḥikāyat Abu al-Qāsim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azdī, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Abū al-Qāsim, who shows up uninvited at a party in Isfahan. Dressed as a holy man and reciting religious poetry, he soon relaxes his demeanour, and, …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes
E-bok, 2016
496 kr
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume II: The Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Texts, Sources and Authorities
Av L. Marlow
E-bok, 2016
585 kr
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the …
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
Inbunden, 2016
2183 kr
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According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light—in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. …
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
E-bok, 2016
464 kr
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According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light—in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. …
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
E-bok, 2016
474 kr
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According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light—in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. …
Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim
A Literary Banquet
Av Emily Selove
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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This study compares ?ikayah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome.
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes
Av L. Marlow, Louise Marlow m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
778 kr
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This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances …
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran
Volume II: The Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Texts, Sources and Authorities
Häftad, 2017
814 kr
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This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances …
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
Häftad, 2018
444 kr
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The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative traditionAccording to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light in the classic instance, a son …
Qur'ānic Stories
God, Revelation and the Audience
Inbunden, 2021
2183 kr
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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur'an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur'anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what …
Qur’ānic Stories
God, Revelation and the Audience
Häftad, 2023
574 kr
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Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'anExplores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'anDraws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur'anic studies to develop a new methodologyExamines the interaction of the text, audience, characters and narratorAnalyses …
Qur’ānic Stories
God, Revelation and the Audience
E-bok, 2021
404 kr
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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur’an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur’anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what …
Qur’ānic Stories
God, Revelation and the Audience
E-bok, 2021
404 kr
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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur’an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur’anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what …
