History of reading; Book circulation; Authors' methodology; Arabic manuscripts; Mamlūk period; Khalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī; Paratext in manuscripts; Ex-libris
Abstract :
[en] Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363) was a famous author of the Mamlūk period. He was a renowned scholar, especially for his great literary culture and for his encyclopedic knowledge, chiefly of biographies. This article approaches him as a reader and focuses on the link between his readings and his scholarly production. The sources of information tackled here are three-fold. First, the ownership statements found on manuscripts title pages are tracked and analysed, put in relation to his contemporaneous writings and life events. Second, his reading journal (taḏkira) is investigated and its various roles are specified; its extent, original number of volumes, contents and uses are all dis- cussed and the preserved manuscripts are also cited. Third, the manuscripts preserved in his hand, whether holographs or copies of other authors’ works, are investigated. Indeed, these are part of his inner library, even if some of them were offered to others
Research Center/Unit :
Transitions - Transitions (Département de recherches sur le Moyen Âge tardif & la première Modernité) - ULiège
Disciplines :
Classical & oriental studies
Author, co-author :
Franssen, Elise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Langue arabe et études islamiques - Histoire de l'art musulman
Language :
English
Title :
al-Ṣafadī: the Scholar as a Reader
Publication date :
2022
Main work title :
Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
Author, co-author :
Franssen, Elise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Langue arabe et études islamiques - Histoire de l'art musulman
Publisher :
Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy
ISBN/EAN :
978-88-6969-561-2
Collection name :
Filologie Medievali e Moderne 26, Serie orientale 5
H2020 - 749180 - RASCIO - Reader, Author, Scholar in a Context of Information Overflow. How to master and manage knowledge when there is too much to know?
Name of the research project :
RASCIO - Reader, Author, Scholar in a Context of Information Overflow. How to master and manage knowledge when there is too much to know?
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