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Al-Jāḥiẓ in praise of books

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ISBN	0748683321 (hardcover)
ISBN	9780748683321 (hardcover)
Author	Montgomery, James E. (James Edward) 1962-
Title	Al-Jāḥiẓ : in praise of books / James E. Montgomery
Publisher	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
Physical desc.	vi, 586 pages ; 25 cm.
Series	Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages [470]-570) and index.
Contents	Preface -- Part 1: Physiognomy of an apocalyptic age. Cataclysm -- Eristics and salvation -- A self-chronicling society -- Part 2: The book of living. The totalising work -- The treatise as totality -- Parsing totality -- The articulation of The book of living -- Analogues? -- Part 3: The Jahizian library under attack. Introducing the 'introduction' -- Translation -- Commentary -- The argument -- Part 4: The salvific book. Biobibliographies -- The form of the 'introduction' -- The enigma of the addressee -- Invective -- The cohesiveness of society -- An encyclopaedia to save society -- Part 5: The architecture of design. Governance of the cosmos -- The grateful response, 1 -- The grateful response, 2 -- Obliquity -- Part 6: Appreciating design. An eristical contest -- Translation -- The argument -- The conclusion -- Postface -- Appendix: The praise of books.
Person as subject	Jāḥiẓ -868 or 869 -- Books and reading
Subject	Books and reading -- Islamic Empire
	Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
	Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life

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