TY - JOUR T1 - Arabic Book Culture in the Work of a Jerusalem Karaite: Abū l-Faraj Hārūn and his Glossary of Difficult Biblical Words PY - 2014 N2 - SummaryPresentation and analysis of the Judeo-Arabic postface, or conclusion, composed in Jerusalem by the 11th-century Karaite grammarian Abū l-Faraj Hārūn b. al-Faraj for his “bestselling” biblical glossary, which is extant in at least forty manuscript copies. Hārūn's postface is quite similar to a preface, and includes many of the elements traditional to authorly prefaces of the period. Yet even while employing literary topoi that were de rigueur in Arabic literature and in composition of the period, Hārūn produced a highly personal postface that conveys his conception of his own literary production in addition to adding important information about his personal biography. JF - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft JA - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft VL - 164 IS - 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.2.0345 M3 - doi:10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.2.0345 ER -