Al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana and the size of knowledge

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 only as crit...

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Autor principal: Bray, J
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Brill 2020