"This book re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of the third/ninth century by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one."@en
"This book re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third/ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate and writerly one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280/893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage."

"Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad"
"Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture : a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad"
"Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic writerly culture : a ninth century bookman in Baghdad"
"Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth-Century Bookman in Baghdad"
"Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad"@en
"Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad"

Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad