Subjectivity and medieval Arabic adab
✍ Kaufmann, Kathryn Scott
📂 Library
📅 1997
🏛 University of California
🌐 English
Adab works of the classical Arabic tradition claim to form the person; hence they resonate with contemporary theoretical interest in the construction of subjectivity, or the self. The early adab works of 'Abdallah Ibn al-Muqaffa' (d. 757 CE) construct a vulnerable subjectivity that requires protecti