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