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Title: Alchemy of Glory
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Dialectic of Truthfulness and Untruthfulness in Medieval Arabic Literary Criticism
Author: Mansour Ajami
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0894106325
EAN: 9780894106323
ISBN: 9780894106323
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 31/12/1988
Description:

A detailed study of the literary debate among medieval Arab critics and philosophers about the use of truthfulness and untruthfulness in the poetry of the period. Emphasis on the critical schemes proposed by al-Jurjani and al-Qarta-janni.

The book includes extensive notes, a bibliography, an index of personal names, and a useful glossary/index of literary and philosophical terms.

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