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