Filologie medievali e moderne

Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond

crossmark logo

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

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.

Se trovi interessanti le nostre pubblicazioni e vuoi ricevere aggiornamenti sulle prossime uscite, iscriviti ora alla nostra newsletter.

x

Newsletter