Classical Arabic Biography

Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139426695
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Arabic Biography written by Michael Cooperson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.

Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Arabic Biography written by Michael Cooperson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ibrahim A. Mumayiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by Ibrahim A. Mumayiz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inleiding tot en vertalingen van klassieke Arabische dichters.

Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741901
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Ma'mun written by Michael Cooperson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible biography treats al-Ma'mum (786-833) as the product of his age, which was a formative period in the development of Islamic law and theology. It presents him in his many facets: rebel, rationalist, scientist, poet, politician, warrior, inquisitor, and self-proclaimed defender of the faith. Drawing on contemporary sources, some friendly and others hostile, it offers a comprehensive portrait of a fascinating figure in Islamic history.

Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629313
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Author and His Doubles written by Abdelfattah Kilito and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inventive and provocative critic of Arabic literature writing in the Middle East today, Kilito opens our perception with the same breadth of vision, seeking to define the traditional and historical forces that bind one writer to another and that inextricably link an author to a text. This volume benefits from Cooperson's accomplished translation. While rigorously precise, it also allows the wit and humor and the lyricism of Kilito's prose full expression. Drawing on major themes of classical Arabic literature, the essays use simple, poetic language to argue that genre, not authorship, is the single most important feature of classical works. Kilito discusses love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith, and the literary anecdote, as well as offering novel readings of recurrent themes such as memorization, plagiarism, forgery, and dream visions of the dead.

Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521465540
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period written by Tarif Khalidi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years.

Author : Michael David Cooperson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heirs of the Prophets in Classical Arabic Biography written by Michael David Cooperson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987810
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Arabic Book written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814770274
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book _______ ________ written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse and prose, from the 6th century CE (pre-Islamic) to the early 18th century CE.

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139936468
Total Pages : 419 pages
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Download or read book Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period written by Roger Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to rectify the situation. The volume is divided into parts with the traditions of poetry and prose covered separately within both their 'elite' and 'popular' contexts. The last two sections are devoted to drama and the indigenous tradition of literary criticism. As the only work of its kind in English covering the post-classical period, this book promises to be a unique resource for students and scholars of Arabic literature for many years to come.