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