Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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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 Paratext in manuscripts • Paratextual marks • Readings • Medieval commentary • Critical reading • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • al-Maqrīzī • Ornate prose style • Mutakallimūn • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Scholars’ networks • Companions • Authors’ methodology • Arabic manuscripts • Book production • Ašʿarī • Copying • Autograph manuscripts • Intellectual independence • Interrelation of writing and reading • Books circulation • Individual reading practices • Consultation notes • Autograph • Correspondence • Way of reading texts • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Marginalia • Methodology • Mistakes • Authorship • Ideal of affective relationship • Quoting • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Ottoman book history • Ownership statements • Bilingualism • Conceptual framework of response • Mamlūk period • Medieval translation • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Literary tastes • Public reading • Mamlūk scholars • Commentaries • Scholars’ library • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Ottoman reading culture • Active and responsive reading • Source methodology • History of reading • Collecting • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Isnād • al-Ṣafadī • Book loans • Intellectual history • Library • Libraries • Book circulation
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 fr, en
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