Al-Jahiz A Muslim Humanist for our Time

Al-Jahiz A Muslim Humanist for our Time

Table of Contents

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………….V

Ezzeddin Ibrahim
Opening Address ……………………………………………………………………………………..VII

Table of Contents …………………………………………………………………………………….. XI
Part One Intellectual History: Critical Concepts

Josef van Ess
Al-Jahiz and Early Mu'tazali Theology …………………………………………………………. 3

Sebastian Günther
Al-Jahiz and the Poetics of Teaching –
A Ninth Century Muslim Scholar on Intellectual Education………………………… 17

Hilary Kilpatrick
Al-Jahiz and World Music …………………………………………………………………………..27

George Saliba
Al-Jahiz and the Critique of Aristotelian Science ………………………………………… 39

Gregor Schoeler
Writing for a Reading Public: The Case of Al-Jahiz………………………………………. 51
Part Two Language, Literature and Communication

Saleh Said Agha
Language as a Component of Arab Identity in Al-Jahiz:
The Case of Ismail’s Conversion to Arabhood …………………………………………….67

Ramzi Baalbaki
The Place of Al-Jahiz in the Arabic Philological Tradition …………………………….. 91

Vahid Behmardi
The Impact of Al-Jahiz on the Genesis of the Maqama Genre……………………… 111

Lale Behzadi
Al-Jahiz and his Successors on Communication
and the Levels of Language ……………………………………………………………………… 125

Peter Heath
Al-Jahiz, Adab, and the Art of the Essay …………………………………………………… 133

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Part Three Texts and Works

Asma Afsaruddin
Lessons from the Past: Piety, Leadership,
and Good Governance in the Risalat al-Uthmaniyya ……………………………………175

Michael Cooperson
Al-Jahiz, the Misers, and the Proto-Sunni Ascetics………………………………………197

Hans Daiber
A New Manuscript of Al-Jahiz’s Works
and its Importance for their Transmission…………………………………………………. 221

Susanne Enderwitz
Culture, History and Religion:
À propos the Introduction of the Kitab al-hayawan ……………………………………. 229

Geert Jan van Gelder
Kitab al-Bursan: Al-Jahiz on Right- and Left-Handedness …………………………… 239

Matthew S. Gordon
Yearning and Disquiet: Al-Jahiz and the Risalat al-qiyan……………………………… 253

Maher Jarrar and Nisrine Jaafar
“It stinks in Basra!”
Al-Jahiz on Odors…………………………………………………………………………………… 269

Index……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 281

Language: English
ISBN: 9783899136760
2007, 1st edition, Hardback, 269 pages, 17 x 24.5 cm