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Writing and representation in medieval Islam : Muslim horizons /

This new book explores the ways in which medieval Muslims, saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the formative period of Islamic thought, the book examines historiography, prose literature and those Ara...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bray, Julia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 11.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history / Robert Irwin
  • History, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam / Robert G. Hoyland
  • Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations / Julie Scott Meisami
  • Al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn / James E. Montgomery
  • The Maqāmāt as a nexus of interests : reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances / Philip F. Kennedy
  • The physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine / Julia Bray.
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on conventions
  • Fact and fiction
  • Robert Irwin: Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history
  • Robert G. Hoyland: history, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam
  • Julie Scott Meisami: Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations
  • Appearance and truth
  • James E. Montgomery: al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn
  • Philip F. Kennedy: The maqāmāt as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances
  • Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine
  • Notes
  • Bibliographies
  • Index.