Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
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- 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 Authorship • Correspondence • al-Ṣafadī • Medieval translation • Book loans • Ornate prose style • Library • Active and responsive reading • Commentaries • Libraries • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Quoting • Intellectual history • Arabic manuscripts • Mistakes • Conceptual framework of response • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Book circulation • Public reading • Intellectual independence • al-Maqrīzī • Consultation notes • Marginalia • Ownership statements • Copying • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Mamlūk period • Mutakallimūn • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Ašʿarī • Ottoman reading culture • Individual reading practices • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Paratext in manuscripts • Ideal of affective relationship • Collecting • Medieval commentary • Books circulation • Ottoman book history • Mamlūk scholars • Autograph manuscripts • Way of reading texts • Book production • History of reading • Literary tastes • Critical reading • Isnād • Authors’ methodology • Interrelation of writing and reading • Methodology • Paratextual marks • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Bilingualism • Scholars’ networks • Readings • Companions • Scholars’ library • Source methodology • Autograph
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 | Numero pagine 326 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 08 Marzo 2022 | Lingua en, fr
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