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