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