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Title:
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Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books.
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Series:
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Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
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￡110.00
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Author:
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Montgomery, James E.
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ISBN:
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978-0-7486-8332-1
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Binding:
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Hardback
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Paperback
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Pub Date:
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2013
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Availability:
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Publisher(Imprint):
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Edinburgh U.P.
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Description:
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Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived in Iraq during the first century of the Abbasid caliphate. This book introduces the writings and Abbasid-period textual world of Al-Jahiz, the 'father of Arabic prose'.
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