In the Author's Hand: Holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in the Islamic Handwritten Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41316-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 171, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

In recent years, a growing interest in “oriental manuscripts” in all their aspects, including the extrinsic ones, has been observed. Research that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has nevertheless been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. The study of the working methods of authors from the past informs different disciplines: paleography, codicology, textual criticism, ecdotics, linguistics and intellectual history. 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, so far rarely discussed in scientific literature, is the identification of an author’s handwriting. Among the authors specifically dealt with in this volume one will find: al-Maqrizi (m. 845/1442), al-Nuwayri (m. 733/1333), Akmal al-Din b. Muflih (m. 1011/1603), al-'Ayni (m. 855/1451) and Ibn Khaldun (m. 808/1406).

Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Julien Dufour, Élise Franssen, Adam Gacek, Retsu Hashizume, Marie-Hélène Marganne, Elias Muhanna, Nobutaka Nakamachi, Anne Regourd, and Kristina Richardson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauden, Frédéric

Franssen, Elise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Authors' Handwritings Appearing on the Cover Image

List of Figures

List of Diagrams and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

2 Comment reconnaître un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L’ exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970

Marie-Hélène Marganne

3 Arabic Holographs: Characteristics and Terminology

Adam Gacek

4 “Bi-kha?? mu?allifihi” … Vraiment?! L’ apport de l’ analyse judiciaire d’ écritures à l’ étude des manuscrits arabes

Élise Franssen

5 Maqriziana XV: The Characteristics of al-Maqrizi’s Handwriting

Frédéric Bauden

6 The Art of Copying: Mamluk Manuscript Culture in Theory and Practice

Elias Muhanna

7 The Holograph Notebooks of Akmal al-Din Mu?ammad b. Mufli? (d. 1011/1603)

Kristina Richardson

8 Al-?Ayni’s Working Method for His Chronicles: Analysis of His Autographical Manuscripts

Nobutaka Nakamachi

9 Textual Criticism on of the Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldun’s Autobiographical Manuscripts

Retsu Hashizume

10 Les safinas yéménites

Julien Dufour and Anne Regourd

List of Quoted Manuscripts

Index of Names

Index of Places

Index of Technical Terms

Über Autor(innen)

Frédéric Bauden, Ph.D. (1996), Université de Liège, is Professor of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies at that university. He has published extensively on the history, historiography and diplomatics of the Mamluk period. He is the editor of the book series Bibliotheca Maqriziana.

Élise Franssen, Ph.D. (2012), Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow (2018-21). A specialist of codicology, she is currently working on the holograph volume of al-Safadi’s Tadhkira and on her book on the manuscripts of the ZER recension of the Thousand and One Nights.