Description
Elyazghi Ezzaher's trans lations are each accompanied by insight ful scholarly introductions and notes that contextualize-both historically and culturally-these immensely significant works while highlighting a comparative, multidisciplinary approach to rhetorical scholarship that offers new perspectives on one of the field's foundational texts. Elegant and practical, the translations give English-speaking scholars and stu dents of rhetoric access to key medieval Arabic rhetorical texts while elucidating the unique and important contribution of those texts to the revival of European interest in the rhetoric and logic of Aris totle, which in turn influenced the rise of universities and the shaping of Western intellectual life.
About the Author
Lahcen Elyazghi Ezzaher is a professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado, USA, where he specializes in histories and theories of rhetoric, theories of discourse, and translation studies. His award-winning work has ap peared in numerous journals, including Rhetorica and Advances in the History of Rhetoric.
Book Information
ISBN 9780809334131
Author Lahcen Elyazghi Ezzaher
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 310g