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