Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
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- Élise Franssen - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - 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 Mamlūk period • Critical reading • al-Ṣafadī • Copying • Collecting • Methodology • Mutakallimūn • Quoting • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Mistakes • Bilingualism • Book circulation • Medieval translation • Authors’ methodology • Active and responsive reading • Scholars’ networks • Book production • Scholars’ library • Ottoman reading culture • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Authorship • Ideal of affective relationship • Ornate prose style • Readings • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Isnād • Companions • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Libraries • Autograph • Intellectual history • Public reading • Consultation notes • Books circulation • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Mamlūk scholars • Way of reading texts • Ašʿarī • al-Maqrīzī • Interrelation of writing and reading • Source methodology • Marginalia • Book loans • Commentaries • Ownership statements • Intellectual independence • Conceptual framework of response • Individual reading practices • Autograph manuscripts • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Ottoman book history • Paratextual marks • Library • Literary tastes • History of reading • Medieval commentary • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Paratext in manuscripts • Correspondence • Arabic manuscripts
Thema codes GTB • NHTB • 3KL • 1QFA
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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