Series |
Medieval and Modern Philologies
Volume 26 | Edited book | Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
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 Arabic manuscripts • Paratextual marks • Scholars’ networks • Authors’ methodology • Book loans • al-Ṣafadī • Autograph manuscripts • Intellectual history • Ornate prose style • Mamlūk period • Ottoman book history • Scholars’ library • Methodology • Ownership statements • Individual reading practices • Books circulation • Ideal of affective relationship • Isnād • Book production • Ottoman reading culture • Medieval commentary • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Correspondence • Book circulation • Readings • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Ašʿarī • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Source methodology • Authorship • Conceptual framework of response • Mutakallimūn • Collecting • Copying • Mamlūk scholars • Library • al-Maqrīzī • Mistakes • Autograph • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Active and responsive reading • Way of reading texts • Marginalia • Public reading • Paratext in manuscripts • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Consultation notes • Literary tastes • Commentaries • Libraries • Bilingualism • Intellectual independence • Critical reading • Interrelation of writing and reading • History of reading • Companions • Medieval translation • Quoting
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
Copyright © 2022 Élise Franssen. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- En guise d’ouverture
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- Préface
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- Foreword
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- Introduction
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1 • Letters in my Mind
Concepts and Practices of Response in the Writing of al-Qādī al-Fāḍil - March 8, 2022
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2 • Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology Regarding His Sources: Reading, Selection and Use
Preliminary Study and Perspectives - March 8, 2022
- 3 • al-Ṣafadī: The Scholar as a Reader
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4 • On Networking and Book Production in fourteenth-Century Damascus
Tāǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī’s and Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s Working Methodology - March 8, 2022
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5 • The Translator as a Reader and Commentator of Aristotle
The Testimony of Evrart de Conty and His Autograph Manuscript (ca. 1380) - March 8, 2022
- 6 • Maqriziana XVI: al-Maqrīzī as a Reader
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- 7 • al-Maqrīzī as a Reader of The Testament of Ardašīr
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8 • Books as Career Shapers
The Reading Activities of Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi (1789-1848) at the Rise of His Career - March 8, 2022
