Filologie medievali e moderne

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Volume 26 | Miscellanea | Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond

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

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 fr, en

Copyright © 2022 Élise Franssen. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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