Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
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edited by
- 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 Companions • al-Ṣafadī • Consultation notes • Active and responsive reading • Ideal of affective relationship • Individual reading practices • Ottoman Mecmūʿa • Ottoman book history • Authorship • Intellectual history • Ottoman scholars’ reading practices • Bilingualism • Scholars’ library • Autograph manuscripts • Ownership statements • Quoting • Intellectual independence • Mamlūk period • Collecting • ʿAhd Ardašīr • Autograph • Medieval translation • Authors’ methodology • Paratextual marks • Arabic manuscripts • Ašʿarī • Paratext in manuscripts • Readings • Marginalia • Literary tastes • Copying • Commentaries • Way of reading texts • Conceptual framework of response • Medieval commentary • Library • Source methodology • Mistakes • Book production • al-Maqrīzī • Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī • Book circulation • Critical reading • Isnād • Scholars’ networks • Ottoman reading culture • Ornate prose style • Libraries • Mamlūk scholars • Methodology • Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ • Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba • Book loans • Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi • Mutakallimūn • Public reading • Pluri-maḏhab referencing • Correspondence • History of reading • Books circulation • Interrelation of writing and reading
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 | Number of pages 326 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published March 8, 2022 | Language en, fr
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