{"title": "Reader in Al-Jahiz", "subjects": ["Jahiz", "Criticism and interpretation", "Technique", "Books and reading", "Arabic literature", "History and criticism", "Intellectual life"], "key": "/works/OL21074244W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL8063179A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93's \"epistolary monographs.\" By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93 shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials --"}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-03T21:25:29.740958"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-29T10:27:59.200222"}}