The Life and works of Jahiz: translations of selected texts
Title | The Life and works of Jahiz: translations of selected texts PDF eBook |
Author | Amr ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz (d. 868 or 9) |
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Pages | 286 |
Release | 1969 |
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The Life and Works of Jahiz
Title | The Life and Works of Jahiz PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1969 |
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The Life and Works of Jahiz
Title | The Life and Works of Jahiz PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 304 |
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The Life and Works of Jāḥiẓ
Title | The Life and Works of Jāḥiẓ PDF eBook |
Author | Jāḥiẓ |
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Pages | 308 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Arabic literature |
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Reader in al-Jahiz
Title | Reader in al-Jahiz PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hefter |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-05-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748692754 |
Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopedist 'Amr b. Bahr al-Jahiz has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. Many of his most engaging writings were clearly intended for a broad readership but were presented as letters to individuals. Despite the importance and quantity of these letters, surprisingly little academic notice has been paid to them. Now, Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jahiz's 'epistolary monographs'. By focusing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jahiz shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.
The Art of Jihad
Title | The Art of Jihad PDF eBook |
Author | Malik Mufti |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2019-09-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1438476388 |
Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent "realist" tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad, Malik Mufti begins by analyzing contemporary debates on jihad designed to highlight the lacuna occupied by realism in other cultures. He explicates the features of medieval Islamic realism; those it shares with realism everywhere—a focus on power, for example, or the ubiquity of human conflict—but also those features that are distinctive: its insistence on the political centrality of religion, its rejection of scientific certainty, its valorization of hierarchy, and its adherence to empire as the optimal ethico-political framework. These features are fleshed out through the writings of medieval political thinkers such as Ibn al-Muqaffa`, al-Jahiz, and the anonymous author of a seminal military manual, as well as political philosophers such as Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun. Finally, Mufti explores the prospects for a revival of Islamic realism in the context of the political and intellectual upheavals currently besetting the Middle East.
Sharing the Book
Title | Sharing the Book PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1592449042 |
More than a dozen religious leaders offer authoritative statements and analyses of classic and contemporary perspectives on mission activity and conversion in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.