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"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...

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Autor principal: Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Islamic literature.
Arabic literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
RELIGION > Islam > History.
HISTORY > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Litterature islamique > Histoire et critique.
Litterature arabe > 1258-1800 > Histoire et critique.
Islamic literature > History and criticism.
Arabic literature > 1258-1800 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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

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