Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition

by Wen-chin Ouyang

For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748608974
• ISBN13: 9780748608973
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher