Writing and representation in medieval Islam : Muslim horizons / edited by Julia Bray.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bray, Julia.

Series:

• Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 11.
• Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Arabic literature--750-1258--History and criticism.
• Arabic literature.
• Arabic literature--1258-1800--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

• Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history / Robert Irwin
• History, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam / Robert G. Hoyland
• Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations / Julie Scott Meisami
• Al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn / James E. Montgomery
• The Maqāmāt as a nexus of interests : reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances / Philip F. Kennedy
• The physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine / Julia Bray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0415385687
• 0203088093

OCLC:

61262435

Publisher Number:

• 9780415385688
• 9780203088098