The medieval Islamic republic of letters : Arabic knowledge construction /
"In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Preliminary Discourse
- Chapter One: Seismic Islamica
- Knowledge Under Duress
- Transmitters Of Knowledge
- The Mongol Court As Site For Debate: Al-Taftazani And Al-Jurjani
- Dynamic Production And Producers
- The Traveling Qasidah In A World-System
- Ghazal Conversations
- A Mantle For Islamic Nationhood: Genealogy Of A Subgenre
- The Ode As Medium Of Sociability
- A Language For A Republic?
- Mobilizing Mourning Rituals
- Reinvented Lexical Communities
- Vagrant Intellectuals
- A Dialogic Space For The Republic Chapter Two: A Massive Conversation Site
- A Prototype For A Republic Of Letters
- Structural Components Of A Republic Of Letters
- The Rattle Of Languages
- The Rise Of Polyglotism
- The Human Agent As Structural Component
- Lexical Authentication For Imperial Rule
- Cairo Beyond Timur
- Cultural Production As A Structural Component
- Authors And Preachers In Conversation
- Archaeological Inventories
- The Battle For Lexical Hegemony
- Chapter Three: The Lexicographic Turn In Cultural Capital
- Models For Nahdah The Fight For Culture: Compendiums And Commentaries
- Markers Of A Complex Phenomenon
- Private Libraries And Scholarly Networks
- Chapter Four: The Context Of An Islamic Literate Society
- Terms Of Exchange: Problems Of Authorized Transmission
- Writing A Contemporary Cultural Scene
- Cultural Trafficking In A Communicative Sphere
- Cultural Production As Commodity
- Diversity And Stratification
- Institutionalized Knowledge Undermined
- The Hard Politics Of Rhetoric: Decentering The Sacral
- The Verbal Subtext Of Hegemonic Discourse The Breakdown Of Representation
- Rhetoric For The State
- Gallery
- Chapter Five: Superfluous Proliferation Or Generative Innovation?
- The Transgeneric Medium: Hazz Al-Quhuf
- The Subject Of Parody And Contrafaction
- Countryside And City: Textual Juxtaposition
- The Polymath As Knowledge Subject
- Shifting Grounds In The Acquisition Of Knowledge
- The Sacral As A Life Force: Al-Hilli's Badi'Iyyah
- From Court To Reading Communities
- Keys To Sciences?
- Textual Communities And Cultural Production Chapter Six: Disputation In Rhetoric
- In Pursuit Of Adab
- The Litterateur's Anecdotal Network
- An Open-Market Cultural Economy
- Speculative Theology At Work
- The Encyclopedic East
- Defining A Cultural Milieu: Multiple Genealogies
- Al-Safadi's Navigations: Theology And Traditionalists
- Literary Venues
- Logic, Grammar, And Jurisprudence
- Traditionalist Alarm At Translating The Greeks
- Chapter Seven: Translation, Theology, And The Institutionalization Of Libraries