7 • al-Maqrīzī as a Reader of The Testament of Ardašīr

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6691
dc.contributor.author	Hämeen-Anttila Jaakko
dc.title	7 • al-Maqrīzī as a Reader of The Testament of Ardašīr
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter discusses the way al-Maqrīzī quotes ʿAhd Ardašīr through Miskawayhi. As we have at our disposal al-Maqrīzī’s holograph and the manuscript of Miskawayhi’s Taǧārib he used, we can see exactly how al-Maqrīzī understood the text he quoted. This is particularly illuminating in cases where Miskawayhi, or the copyist of the manuscript, had misunderstood the ʿAhd and al-Maqrīzī had a partly corrupt text in front of him. Even though elsewhere al-Maqrīzī can be very free with his sources, with this text he avoids emendations and aims at a high fidelity to the text. Sometimes, however, we can see how he has misunderstood the text and changed its original meaning.
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	2021-07-28
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-560-5/7-al-maqrizi-as-a-reader-of-the-testament-of-ardas/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-560-5/011
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	Copying
dc.subject	Mistakes
dc.subject	Quoting
dc.subject	al-Maqrīzī
dc.subject	ʿAhd Ardašīr

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7 • al-Maqrīzī as a Reader of The Testament of Ardašīr

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila University of Edinburgh, UK

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This chapter discusses the way al-Maqrīzī quotes ʿAhd Ardašīr through Miskawayhi. As we have at our disposal al-Maqrīzī’s holograph and the manuscript of Miskawayhi’s Taǧārib he used, we can see exactly how al-Maqrīzī understood the text he quoted. This is particularly illuminating in cases where Miskawayhi, or the copyist of the manuscript, had misunderstood the ʿAhd and al-Maqrīzī had a partly corrupt text in front of him. Even though elsewhere al-Maqrīzī can be very free with his sources, with this text he avoids emendations and aims at a high fidelity to the text. Sometimes, however, we can see how he has misunderstood the text and changed its original meaning.

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March 8, 2022

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Dec. 13, 2021

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July 28, 2021

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978-88-6969-561-2

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978-88-6969-560-5

Keywords: al-Maqrīzī • Quoting • Mistakes • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Copying

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