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