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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Writing and representation in medieval IslamMuslim horizons /edited by Julia Bray |
| Added Author: | Bray, Julia |
| Publisher: | London ; Routledge, 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents: | Fact and fiction -- 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 -- Appearance and truth -- al-Jahiz's al-bayan wa al-tabyin / James E. Montgomery -- The maqamat as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances / Philip F. Kennedy -- The physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanukhi and medicine / Julia Bray. |
| Author as Subject: | al-Jahiz, ca. 776 or 777-868 or 869 |
| Descriptors: | Belles-lettres |
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