Variance In Arabic Manuscripts

Author : Florian Sobieroj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110460001

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Variance in Arabic Manuscripts by Florian Sobieroj Pdf

In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the “closed transmission” will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given. The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers,editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.

Author : Florian Sobieroj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791035100773

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Variance in Arabic Manuscripts by Florian Sobieroj Pdf

Author : Frédéric Bauden,Elise Franssen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004413177

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In the Author's Hand: Holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in the Islamic Handwritten Tradition by Frédéric Bauden,Elise Franssen Pdf

Research that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. In this volume nine contributions and case studies are gathered that address theoretical issues and convey different, disruptive perspectives. A particularly important subject of this book is the identification of an author’s handwriting.

Author : David Durand-Guédy,Jürgen Paul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111037196

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Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes by David Durand-Guédy,Jürgen Paul Pdf

Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, florilegia, personal notes, excerpts, drafts and notebooks, as well as family books, accountancy notebooks and many others; these forms often being mixed with one another. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective, from Japan to Europe through the Middle East, with a focus on the Near and Middle East. The main concern is the possibility of identifying typical features of such manuscripts in terms of materials, visual organization and content. In attempting this, both the conditions of production and traces of the manuscripts' use are taken into consideration, with particular attention to their material aspects.

Author : Stefanie Brinkmann,Giovanni Ciotti,Stefano Valente,Eva Maria Wilden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110741179

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Education Materialised by Stefanie Brinkmann,Giovanni Ciotti,Stefano Valente,Eva Maria Wilden Pdf

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations. The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

Author : Dmitry Bondarev,Alessandro Gori,Lameen Souag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110635089

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Creating Standards by Dmitry Bondarev,Alessandro Gori,Lameen Souag Pdf

Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic, New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria, Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidäl script as used to transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history of writing.

Author : J. Cale Johnson,Alessandro Stavru
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110642681

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Visualizing the invisible with the human body by J. Cale Johnson,Alessandro Stavru Pdf

Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological ‘types’ that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.

Author : Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110498479

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Prognostication in the Medieval World by Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner Pdf

Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

Author : Kristof D'hulster
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847012924

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Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves by Kristof D'hulster Pdf

Starting from 135 manuscripts that were once part of the library of the late Mamluk sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516), this book challenges the dominant narrative of a "post-court era", in which courts were increasingly marginalized in the field of adab. Rather than being the literary barren field that much of the Arabic and Arabic-centred sources, produced extra muros, would have us believe, it re-cognizes Qāniṣawh's court as a rich and vibrant literary site and a cosmopolitan hub in a burgeoning Turkic literary ecumene. It also re-centres the ruler himself within this court. No longer the passive object of panegyric or the source of patronage alone, Qāniṣawh has an authorial voice in his own right, one that is idiosyncratic yet in conversation with other voices. As such, while this book is first and foremost a book about books, it is one that consciously aspires to be more than that: a book about a library, and, ultimately, a book about the man behind the library, Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī.

Author : Maribel Fierro,Mayte Penelas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110713442

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The Maghrib in the Mashriq by Maribel Fierro,Mayte Penelas Pdf

This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the rest of the Islamic world. It presents results achieved in the Research Project "Local contexts and global dynamics: al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the Islamic East (AMOI)", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFI2016-78878-R AEI/FEDER, UE) and directed by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas. The book contains 18 contributions written by senior and junior scholars from different institutions all over the world. It is divided into five sections dealing with how knowledge produced in the Maghrib was integrated in the Mashriq starting with the emergence and construction of the concept 'Maghrib' (sections 1 and 2); how travel allowed the reception in the Maghrib of knowledge produced in the Mashriq but also the transmission of locally produced knowledge outside the Maghrib, and the different ways in which such transmission took place (sections 3 and 4), and how the Maghribis who stayed or settled in the Mashriq manifested their identity (section 5). The book will be of interest not only for those whose research concentrates on the Maghrib but more generally for those who want to understand the complex and shifting dynamics between 'centres' and 'peripheries' as regards intellectual production and circulation.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Adam Gacek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004170360

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Arabic Manuscripts by Adam Gacek Pdf

Arranged alphabetically by subject and/or concept and richly illustrated, the present vademecum deals with various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies. A companion volume to my recently published The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and its Supplement (2008), this work constitutes an indispensible aid to students and researchers.

Author : British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts,Charles Rieu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Manuscripts, Arabic
ISBN : UOM:39015087564707

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Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts,Charles Rieu Pdf

Author : Rachida Chih,Stefan Reichmuth,David Jordan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004466753

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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam by Rachida Chih,Stefan Reichmuth,David Jordan Pdf

This second collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of case studies on how Muhammad’s material, spiritual, and genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim empires, revolutionary movements, the formation of modern nation states and ideologies, as well as for communal mobilization and social reform. This novel comparative, and diachronic study, which is unique for its wide coverage of regional cases and perspectives, reveals diverse political representations of the Prophet in an increasingly globalised struggle over the control of his image between secularization and sacralization. Contributors Gianfranco Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Günther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth, Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian Zemmin.

Author : Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004202740

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Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion by Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman Pdf

This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.