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Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture : a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad

This book re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of the third/ninth century by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one
eBook, English, 2005
RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2005
Electronic books
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
9780203324530, 9780415297622, 9781134430536, 9781134430543, 0203324536, 0415297621, 1134430531, 113443054X
63791918
1. From memory to written record
2. The presence and insistence of books
3. Reciting poetry, telling tales
4. Being a bookman
5. Navigating partisan shoals
6. Precedence and context
7. The 'bad boys' of Baghdad