3 • al-Ṣafadī: The Scholar as a Reader

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_7213
dc.contributor.author	Franssen Élise
dc.title	3 • al-Ṣafadī: The Scholar as a Reader
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363) was a famous author of the Mamlūk period. He was a renowned scholar, especially for his great literary culture and for his encyclopedic knowledge, chiefly of biographies. This article approaches him as a reader and focuses on the link between his readings and his scholarly production. The sources of information tackled here are three-fold. First, the ownership statements found on manuscripts title pages are tracked and analysed, put in relation to his contemporaneous writings and life events. Second, his reading journal (taḏkira) is investigated and its various roles are specified; its extent, original number of volumes, contents and uses are all discussed and the preserved manuscripts are also cited. Third, the manuscripts preserved in his hand, whether holographs or copies of other authors’ works, are investigated. Indeed, these are part of his inner library, even if some of them were offered to others.
dc.relation.ispartof	Medieval and Modern Philologies
dc.relation.ispartof	Serie orientale
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-03-08
dc.dateAccepted	2021-12-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-560-5/3-al-safadi-the-scholar-as-a-reader/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-560-5/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-945X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9441
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-561-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-560-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Arabic manuscripts
dc.subject	Authors’ methodology
dc.subject	Books circulation
dc.subject	History of reading
dc.subject	Mamlūk period

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3 • al-Ṣafadī: The Scholar as a Reader

Élise Franssen Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363) was a famous author of the Mamlūk period. He was a renowned scholar, especially for his great literary culture and for his encyclopedic knowledge, chiefly of biographies. This article approaches him as a reader and focuses on the link between his readings and his scholarly production. The sources of information tackled here are three-fold. First, the ownership statements found on manuscripts title pages are tracked and analysed, put in relation to his contemporaneous writings and life events. Second, his reading journal (taḏkira) is investigated and its various roles are specified; its extent, original number of volumes, contents and uses are all discussed and the preserved manuscripts are also cited. Third, the manuscripts preserved in his hand, whether holographs or copies of other authors’ works, are investigated. Indeed, these are part of his inner library, even if some of them were offered to others.

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March 8, 2022

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Dec. 13, 2021

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July 23, 2021

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978-88-6969-561-2

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978-88-6969-560-5

Keywords: Mamlūk period • History of reading • Arabic manuscripts • Books circulation • Authors’ methodology

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