In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth
century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the
elaboration of the notion of adab in its wider meaning of literary
culture is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of
writers. The disproportionate emphasis, within and outside the
Arabic literary-historical and critical tradition, has been at the
expense of certain crucial aspects of that tradition. This book
re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of the third/ninth
century by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of an
important transformation, namely the one signalled by the
transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an
increasingly writerly, literate, and bookish one. This
transformation had a profound influence on the production of
learned and literary culture; on the modes of transmission of
learning; on the nature and types of literary production; on the
nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and
on the ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as
plagiarism. In order better to understand these, attention is
focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
(d. 280/893
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