
Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal
Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam
Sebastian Guenther(Editor)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 17. May 2005
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Hardback
470 pages
978-90-04-14325-8 (ISBN)
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This volume deals with the genesis of selected classical Arabic texts as the products of different milieus, and the implications which these texts had for Islamic societies in medieval times.
It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their writings and, in particular, ponders the ways in which these authors used specific methods of portrayal-either overtly or more subtly-to advance their ideas.
The fresh theoretical and methodological approaches applied in this book facilitate the understanding of how medieval Muslim writers expressed their views and, more importantly, why they expressed them in the way they did. This helps disclose, for example, how the images of historically or religiously significant figures in Arabic-Islamic culture have been developed and shaped in the process of their "literarization."
It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their writings and, in particular, ponders the ways in which these authors used specific methods of portrayal-either overtly or more subtly-to advance their ideas.
The fresh theoretical and methodological approaches applied in this book facilitate the understanding of how medieval Muslim writers expressed their views and, more importantly, why they expressed them in the way they did. This helps disclose, for example, how the images of historically or religiously significant figures in Arabic-Islamic culture have been developed and shaped in the process of their "literarization."
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Cloth
With dust jacket
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Height: 243 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1061 gr
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978-90-04-14325-8 (9789004143258)
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Sebastian Guenther, Ph.D. (1989) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on the literary and intellectual heritage of Islam, including Quellenuntersuchungen zu den Maqatil a?-?alibiyyin (Olms, 1991).