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Filologie medievali e moderne
Volume 26 | Miscellanea | Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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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 Book production • Library • Ottoman reading culture • Paratext in manuscripts • Interrelation of writing and reading • Companions • Autograph manuscripts • Mamlūk period • Authorship • Autograph • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Consultation notes • Mamlūk scholars • Ottoman book history • Correspondence • Intellectual independence • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Paratextual marks • Scholars’ networks • Conceptual framework of response • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Active and responsive reading • Ornate prose style • Books circulation • Ownership statements • Way of reading texts • Marginalia • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Medieval commentary • Book loans • Source methodology • Mistakes • Mutakallimūn • Intellectual history • Copying • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Collecting • Public reading • Bilingualism • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Arabic manuscripts • al-Maqrīzī • Medieval translation • Authors’ methodology • History of reading • Book circulation • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Libraries • Commentaries • Individual reading practices • Quoting • Critical reading • Methodology • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Ašʿarī • al-Ṣafadī • Readings • Isnād • Literary tastes • Scholars’ library • Ideal of affective relationship
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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