Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
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A01=Shawkat M. Toorawa
Abbasid intellectual history
Abd Al Mut
Abd Al Rah
abu
Ahl Al Bayt
al-mudabbir
al-muqaffa'
Ammad Ibn
Arabic Literary Culture
Arabic philology
Arabic Writerly Culture
Author_Shawkat M. Toorawa
baghdad
Bookman
Caliphal Patronage
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Category=GTM
Category=JB
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evolution of Arabic literary culture
history
Hurmuz Ibn
Ibn Al Mu
Ibn Al Mudabbir
Ibn Al Munajjim
Ibn Al Muqaffa
Ibn Durayd
Ibn Ish
Ibn Qutaybah
Ibn Yah
literary patronage
literature
mad
Mad Ibn
manuscript transmission
medieval plagiarism studies
Ninth Century Baghdad
Prophet Muh
qutaybah
scholarly networks
State Secretaries
tammam
Variant Title
Vice Versa
Writerly Culture
yah
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415595896
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage.
Shawkat M. Toorawa is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at Cornell University. He has co-authored Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (University of California, 2001); co-edited Arabic Literary Culture, 500-925 (Gale, 2004); and translated Adonis's A Time between Ashes and Roses (Syracuse University Press, 2004).
