Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
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edited by
- Élise Franssen - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract
Authors read and they use their readings within their writing process. Scrutinizing authors’ readings provides information on their tastes, working subjects at a given period, methodology, and scholarly milieu. It also brings a lot to intellectual history, highlighting the texts and manuscripts circulating in a certain context. Eight contributions investigating the readings of as many authors, from different points of view, are gathered here. The studied authors are mainly from pre-modern Islam – al-Qādī al-Fāḍil, Ibn Taymiyya, al-Ṣafadī, al-Subkī, al-Maqrīzī – with three exceptions: an incursion into the Ottoman 19th century – Esʿad Efendi –, a detour by the French court of Charles V – Evrart de Conty –, and a preface about Greek Antiquity – Philodème de Gadara.
Keywords Scholars’ networks • Conceptual framework of response • Paratextual marks • Active and responsive reading • Intellectual history • Methodology • Companions • Commentaries • Ottoman book history • Ownership statements • Consultation notes • Paratext in manuscripts • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Ottoman reading culture • Books circulation • Arabic manuscripts • Mamlūk period • Ideal of affective relationship • Readings • Medieval translation • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Ašʿarī • Individual reading practices • Scholars’ library • Interrelation of writing and reading • Book loans • Correspondence • Literary tastes • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Copying • Book production • Intellectual independence • Quoting • Authors’ methodology • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Ornate prose style • History of reading • al-Ṣafadī • Critical reading • Collecting • al-Maqrīzī • Mistakes • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Autograph manuscripts • Book circulation • Mutakallimūn • Bilingualism • Public reading • Way of reading texts • Libraries • Mamlūk scholars • Marginalia • Source methodology • Library • Medieval commentary • Isnād • Autograph • Authorship
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-560-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-560-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-561-2 | Number of pages 326 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published March 8, 2022 | Language en, fr
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