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