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