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Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellect

Books and reading --- Arabic literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- RELIGION --- Arabic literature. --- Books and reading. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- African. --- Islam --- General. --- Jāḥiẓ, --- J†a•hi•z, --- 750-1258. --- Islamic Empire --- Islamic Empire. --- Literary criticism --- Religion --- Bibliophilie. --- Literature. --- History and criticism. --- Jāḥiẓ, --- Arabic language -- Lexicography. --- Jāhiz, d. 868 or 9. --- Abou Othman Amr ibn Bahr al-Djahiz de Basra, --- Abu Osman Amr ibn Bakhr alʹ-Basri alʹ-Dzhakhiz, --- Abū ʻUthmān ʻAmr bin Baḥr al-Fuqaymī al-Baḥrī, --- Abū ʻUthman ʻAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ, --- Cāḥiẓ, Ebū ʻOs̲mān ʻAmr bin Baḥr, --- Djâh̲iz̲, --- Dzhakhiz, --- Ebu Osman Amr bin Bahr bin Mahbub bin Fezâre, --- Ǧāḥiẓ, --- Jahidh, Amr ibn Bahr, --- Jāḥiẓ, Abū ʻUthman ibn Baḥr, --- Jāḥiẓ, ʻAmr ibn Baḥr, --- Ŷāḥiẓ, --- أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الجاحظ --- الجاحظ --- الجاحظ ، عمرو بن بحر --- الجاحظ، --- الجاهظ --- جاحظ --- جاحظ، --- جاحظ، عمرو بن بحر --- جاهظ --- حاحظ --- عثمان عمر و بن بحر --- عمرو بن بحر الجاحظ --- غازي