TY - JOUR
T1 - Arabic book culture in the work of a Jerusalem Karaite
T2 - Abu¯ l-Faraj Ha¯ru¯n and his glossary of difficult biblical words
AU - Goldstein, Miriam
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Presentation and analysis of the Judeo-Arabic postface, or conclusion, composed in Jerusalem by the 11th-century Karaite grammarian Abu¯ l-Faraj Ha¯ru¯n b. al-Faraj for his "bestselling" biblical glossary, which is extant in at least forty manuscript copies. Ha¯ru¯n's postface is quite similar to a preface, and includes many of the elements traditional to authorly prefaces of the period. Yet even while employing literary topoi that were de rigueur in Arabic literature and in composition of the period, Ha¯ru¯n produced a highly personal postface that conveys his conception of his own literary production in addition to adding important information about his personal biography.
AB - Presentation and analysis of the Judeo-Arabic postface, or conclusion, composed in Jerusalem by the 11th-century Karaite grammarian Abu¯ l-Faraj Ha¯ru¯n b. al-Faraj for his "bestselling" biblical glossary, which is extant in at least forty manuscript copies. Ha¯ru¯n's postface is quite similar to a preface, and includes many of the elements traditional to authorly prefaces of the period. Yet even while employing literary topoi that were de rigueur in Arabic literature and in composition of the period, Ha¯ru¯n produced a highly personal postface that conveys his conception of his own literary production in addition to adding important information about his personal biography.
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AN - SCOPUS:84917744441
SN - 0341-0137
VL - 164
SP - 345
EP - 373
JO - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft
JF - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft
IS - 2
ER -