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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 History of reading • Scholars’ networks • Correspondence • Active and responsive reading • Collecting • Libraries • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Book loans • Books circulation • Companions • Intellectual history • Marginalia • Book circulation • Medieval commentary • Bilingualism • Book production • Individual reading practices • Medieval translation • Copying • Critical reading • Ornate prose style • Ownership statements • Quoting • Ideal of affective relationship • Readings • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Public reading • Consultation notes • Ottoman book history • Interrelation of writing and reading • Autograph • Mutakallimūn • Way of reading texts • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Source methodology • Mistakes • Ašʿarī • Mamlūk scholars • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Authors’ methodology • Intellectual independence • Ottoman reading culture • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Literary tastes • Authorship • al-Maqrīzī • Isnād • Mamlūk period • Conceptual framework of response • Methodology • Paratextual marks • Scholars’ library • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Paratext in manuscripts • Arabic manuscripts • Commentaries • al-Ṣafadī • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Library • Autograph manuscripts
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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- En guise d’ouverture
- 08 Marzo 2022
- Préface
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- Foreword
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- Introduction
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1 • Letters in my Mind
Concepts and Practices of Response in the Writing of al-Qādī al-Fāḍil - 08 Marzo 2022
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2 • Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology Regarding His Sources: Reading, Selection and Use
Preliminary Study and Perspectives - 08 Marzo 2022
- 3 • al-Ṣafadī: The Scholar as a Reader
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4 • On Networking and Book Production in fourteenth-Century Damascus
Tāǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī’s and Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s Working Methodology - 08 Marzo 2022
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5 • The Translator as a Reader and Commentator of Aristotle
The Testimony of Evrart de Conty and His Autograph Manuscript (ca. 1380) - 08 Marzo 2022
- 6 • Maqriziana XVI: al-Maqrīzī as a Reader
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- 7 • al-Maqrīzī as a Reader of The Testament of Ardašīr
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8 • Books as Career Shapers
The Reading Activities of Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi (1789-1848) at the Rise of His Career - 08 Marzo 2022
