Hefter, Thomas. <br/><br/>
The Reader in Al-Jahiz :  The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (289 pages) 
 - Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Series .
 - Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing -- 2 Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody -- 3 Undisclosed Origins and Homelands -- 4 Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitab al-Bukhala -- 5 Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abu al-ʿAs/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748692750 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ja?i?, -- -868 or 869 -- Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Books and reading -- Islamic Empire.<br/>Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism.<br/>Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ7745.J3 -- .H448 2014eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.783409