Al- Jāḥiẓ : a Muslim humanist for our time ; [... presented at a Conference Entitled "Al-Jāḥiẓ: A Muslim Humanist for Our Time", held in Beirut in January 2005] / [Orient-Institut Beirut]. ed. by Arnim Heinemann, John L. Meloy, Tarif Khalidi, Manfred Kropp. Würzburg : Ergon-Verl. [u.a.], 2009
Content
PDF Front cover
PDF Title page
PDF Introduction
PDF Opening Address bey Dr. Ezzeddin Ibrahim (Cultural Counsellor to the President of the United Arab Emirates)
PDF Table of Contents
PDF Part One Intellectual History: Critical Concepts
Al-Jāḥiẓ and Early Muʿtazilī Theology Josef van Ess (Tübingen)
Al-Jāḥiẓ and the Poetics of Teaching - A Ninth Century Muslim Scholar on Intellectual Education Sebastian Günther (University of Toronto)
Al-Jāḥiẓ and World Music Hilary Kilpatrick (University of Zurich)
Al-Jāḥiẓ and the Critique of Aristotelian Science George Saliba (Columbia University and Kluge Center / Library of Congress)
Writing for a Reading Public: The Case of al-Jāḥiẓ Gregor Schoeler (University of Basel)
PDF Part Two Language, Literature and Communication
Language as a Component of Arab Identity in al-Jāḥiẓ: The Case of Ismāʿīl's Conversion to Arabhood Saleh Said Agha (American University of Beirut)
The Place of al-Jāḥiẓ in the Arabic Philological Tradition Ramzi Baalbaki (American University of Beirut)
The Impact of al-Jāḥiẓ on the Genesis of the Maqāma Genre Vahid Behmardi (Lebanese American University of Beirut)
Al-Jāḥiẓ and his Successors on Communication and the Levels of Language Lale Behzadi (University of Göttingen)
Al-Jāḥiẓ, Adab, and the Art of the Essay Peter Heath (American University of Beirut)
PDF Part Three Texts and Works
Lessons from the Past: Piety, Leadership, and Good Governance in the Risālat al-ʿUthmāniyya Asma Afsaruddin (University of Notre Dame)
Al-Jāḥiẓ, the Misers, and the Proto-Sunnī Ascetics Michael Cooperson (University of California, Los Angeles)
A New Manuscript of al-Jāḥiẓ's Works and its Importance for their Transmission Hans Daiber (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main)
Culture, History and Religion: À propos the Introduction of the al-ḥayawān Susanne Enderwitz (University of Heidelberg)
Kitāb al-Burṣān: Al-Jāḥiẓ on Right- and Left-Handedness Geert Jan van Gelder (University of Oxford)
Yearning and Disquiet: Al-Jāḥiẓ and the Risālat al-qiyān Matthew S. Gordon (Miami University)
"It Stinks in Basra!" Al-Jāḥiẓ on Odors Maher Jarrar and Nisrine Jaafar (American University of Beirut)
PDF Index
Orient-Institut Beirut Beiruter Texte Und Studien
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