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                                                                <journal-id>nesir</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2757-9999</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2822-468X</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Düşünce ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Derneği</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.64957/nesir.1935065</article-id>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="en">
                                                            <subject>World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Theory</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Studies (Other)</subject>
                                                    </subj-group>
                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Teori</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer, University of California Press, 2026. 250 pp.: ISBN 9780520424982</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition: Sarah R. Bin Tyeer, University of California Press, 2026. 250 pp.: ISBN 9780520424982</article-title>
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                                                    <contrib-group content-type="authors">
                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5391-0820</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ekiz</surname>
                                    <given-names>Ahmet Barış</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260422">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>22</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
                </pub-date>
                                                    <issue>10</issue>
                                        <fpage>301</fpage>
                                        <lpage>305</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20260414">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>14</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260417">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>17</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="tr">
                            <p>Bu kitap değerlendirmesi Sarah R. Bin Tyeer’in The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition adlı eserini incelemekte ve kitaptan hareketle edeb kavramını tartışmaktadır. Edeb kavramı modern öncesi İslam toplumlarında eğitimli, rafıne ve ahlaklı insan olma ideallerini ihtiva etmektedir. Yazıda, kitabın yazarının etik ve etik olmayan okur ve okuma biçimlerine dair kategorileştirmelerini ele almaktayım. Kitaptaki okuyucu tiplerine dair idealleştirme ve bağlamsal olmayan yaklaşım eleştirilmektedir. Ayrıca, kitabın kapsamının Arap dünyasındaki Arap edebi geleneği ile sınırlandırılmasını tartışmakta, bu geleneğin aynı zamanda Fars ve Osmanlı entelektüel dünyalarını da içerdiğine işaret etmekteyim.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This book review investigates Sarah R. Bin Tyeer’s book The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition, to explore the concept of adab. In premodern Islamic societies, adab embodied the ideal of the educated and ethical human being. In this review, I examine the author’s categorization of readers and modes of reading as ethical and unethical. I critique the idealization of reader types and the book’s noncontextual approach to reading. Furthermore, I challenge the book’s limited scope, focusing on the Arabic literary tradition in the Arab lands. I point out that the cultivation of Arabic literary tradition extended beyond these regions, encompassing the Persian and Ottoman intellectual milieus.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>The concept of adab</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  knowledge</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Arabic literary tradition</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  the culture of reading</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  hermeneutics</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  ethics</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Edeb kavramı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  bilgi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Arap edebi geleneği</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  okuma kültürü</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  hermenötik</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  etik</kwd>
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                                                    <funding-source>
                                <named-content content-type="funder_name">This book review was produced without any financial support.</named-content>
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