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