TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hefter,Thomas
TI  - The reader in al-Jahiz: the epistolary thetoric of an Arabic Prose Master 
T2  - Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature
SN  - 9780748692743
PY  - 2014///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - al-Jahiz
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Islamic empire
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index
N2  - Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jahiz's'epistolary monographs.' By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jahiz shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials
ER  -