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