The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society / / Adrian Gully.
The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society received an honourable mention from the British-Kuwait Friendship Society at BRISMES 2009Writing letters was an important component of intellectual life in the Middle Islamic period, telling us much about the cultural history of pre-modern...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1 The foundations of letter-writing in pre-modern Islamic society
- CHAPTER 2 Epistolary prose, poetry and oratory: essentials of the debate
- CHAPTER 3 The power of the pen and the primacy of script
- CHAPTER 4 the composition secretary (I): background and status
- CHAPTER 5 the composition secretary (II): moral and inner qualities
- CHAPTER 6 Balāġa, epistolary structure and style
- CHAPTER 7 epistolary protocol
- Bibliography
- Index