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