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