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