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