Al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana and the Size of Knowledge
Abstract This paper first surveys the structure, content and purpose of al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana , the largest work of poetic criticism of the fourth/tenth century, then its medieval reception, which grants it quasi-encyclopaedic authority. Modern reception has often dehistoricized it by viewing it on...
| Published in: | Journal of Abbasid Studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-144 |
| Further subjects: | B
citation practice
B al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana B “archival” outlook B “big books” B Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī B ego-document B al-Tanūkhī |
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