Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture
The Making of a Tradition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:29th Oct '97
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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).
The main virtue of this study is that it asks the sources questions never asked before and I know of no comparable book that deals with the status of the pre-modern Arab critic. -- Pierre Cachia, Columbia University, NewYork The main virtue of this study is that it asks the sources questions never asked before and I know of no comparable book that deals with the status of the pre-modern Arab critic.
ISBN: 9780748608973
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 350g
256 pages