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