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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Writing and representation in medieval Islam : Muslim horizons /edited by Julia Bray. |
| Added Author: | Bray, Julia |
| Publisher: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Pages: | xi, 266 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 04153856879780415385688 |
| Notes: | c2006 Julia Bray, selection and editorial matter; the contributors, their own chapters. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Ibn Zanbul 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-Jahiz's Kitab 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: | Ibn Zunbul, Ahmad ibn 'Ali, 16th cent. al-Jahiz, ca. 776 or 7-868 or 9Kilito, Abdelfattah al-Tanukhi, 940-994 |
| Descriptors: | Belles-lettres Maqama Fiction, Historical |
| Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures 11 |
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