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Subject(s)

• Islamic education—History [Browse]
• Islamic learning and scholarship [Browse]
• Learning and scholarship—Islamic Empire [Browse]
• Libraries—Islamic Empire [Browse]

Related name

• Gilliot, Claude [Browse]

Series

• Formation of the classical Islamic world ; Volume 43. [More in this series]
• The Formation of the Classical Islamic World ; Volume 43

Notes

• A collection of previously published material, some of which has been translated into English for inclusion in this volume.
• First published 2012 by Ashgate Pub.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

In English; occasional phrases in Arabic with English translations.

Contents

• Part I: Pedagogical Tradition
• 1. The Etiquette of Learning in the Early Islamic Study Circle
• 2. Muslim Education
• 3. Some Aspects of the Education of Princes at the 'Abbāsid Court
• 4. The Age Structure of Medieval Islamic Education
• 5. Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Saḥnūn and al-Jāḥiẓ on Pedagogy and Didactics
• Part II: Scholarship and Attestation
• 6. The Islamic Preacher wā'iẓ, mudhakkir, qāṣṣ
• 7. The Scholarly Formation of al-Ṭabari --
• 8. The Human Element between Text and Reader: The ijāza in Arabic Manuscripts
• Part III: Orality and Literacy
• 9. The Oral Transmission of Knowledge in Traditional Islam
• 10. The Office of the Mustamlῑ in Arabic Scholarship
• Part IV: Authorship and Transmission
• 11. The Use of Writing for the Preservation of Ancient Arabic Poetry
• 12. Authorship and Transmission in Unauthored Literature: The Akhbā Attributed to al-Haytham ibn 'Adῑ
• 13. On the Legacy of the Classics in the Islamic World
• 14. On the Transmission of Bukhārῑ's Collection of Traditions
• 15. The Introduction of Ḥaḍith in al-Andalus --
• 16. The Transmission of Knowledge in al-Andalus (up to 300/912)
• Part V: Libraries
• 17. Libraries and Bibliophiles in the Islamic East
• 18. Arabic Books and Libraries in the Umaiyad Period
• 19. The Library of al-Ḥakam II al-Mustanṣir and the Culture of Islamic Spain.

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ISBN

• 1-315-25695-9
• 1-351-94159-3
• 1-351-94160-7

OCLC

• 987753988
• 992192274

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315256955

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