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Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
- Title
- Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography | Literature and Literary studies | Ottoman book history | Consultation notes | Marginalia | Autograph | Medieval translation | Readings | Paratextual marks | Correspondence | Libraries | Commentaries | Intellectual independence | Mutakallimūn | Companions | Paratext in manuscripts | Taǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī | Ottoman Mecmūʿa | Ownership statements | ʿAhd Ardašīr | History of reading | Mamlūk period | Authorship | Methodology | Intellectual history | Scholars’ networks | al-Maqrīzī | Way of reading texts | Book circulation | Pluri-maḏhab referencing | Public reading | Ǧamʿ al-ǧawāmiʿ | Ottoman scholars’ reading practices | Active and responsive reading | Autograph manuscripts | al-Ṣafadī | Authors’ methodology | Quoting | Individual reading practices | Ǧumhūr al-ṣaḥāba | Isnād | Collecting | Mamlūk scholars | Ašʿarī | Book loans | Bilingualism | Library | Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi | Mistakes | Ornate prose style | Book production | Copying | Ottoman reading culture | Source methodology | Ideal of affective relationship | Scholars’ library | Arabic manuscripts | Critical reading | Literary tastes | Medieval commentary | Conceptual framework of response | Interrelation of writing and reading | Books circulation
- Publisher
- Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
- Date
- 2022
- Identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-560-5
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Language
- en
- fr
- Source
- https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134599
- Relation
- Filologie medievali e moderne 5
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0
- Educational Level
- Higher education | research
- Interactivity Type
- Expositive
- Item sets
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice