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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | al-Jahiz : a Muslim humanist for our time /edited by Arnim Heinemann ; John L. Meloy ; Tarif Khalidi ; Manfred Kropp. |
| Parallel Title: | al-Jahiz : a Muslim humanist for our time |
| Added Author: | Heinemann, Arnim Meloy, John Lash Khalidi, Tarif Kropp, Manfred |
| Publisher: | Beirut : Ergon Verlag Würtzburg in Kommission, 2009. |
| Pages: | xii, 295 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9783899136760 |
| Notes: | c2009 Orient-Institut Beirut |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | al-Jahiz and early Mu'tazili theology / Josef van Ess -- al-Jahiz and the poetics of teaching : a ninth century Muslim scholar on intellectual education / Sebastian Günther -- al-Jahiz and world music / Hilary Kilpatrick -- al-Jahiz and the critique of Aristotelian science / George Saliba -- Writing for a reading public : the case of al-Ja |
| Author as Subject: | al-Jahiz, ca. 776 or 7-868 or 9 |
| Series: | Beiruter texte und studien Band 119 |
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