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