An Unruly Classic

Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69356-2
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Global Arabic Literary Cultures

In this collected volume, members of the Kalila and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of their work with this textual tradition: the study of variation and mutability. The aim is to shed light on Kalila and Dimna’s so-called mouvance and establish typologies of textual mobility and instability across linguistic traditions and historical periods, as well as to develop analytical tools to describe, classify, represent, and interpret these dynamics. As will be shown, the progressive digitalization of philology in the last decades has offered the unique opportunity of putting the concept of mouvance into practice.

Contributors: Theodore S. Beers, Jan J. van Ginkel, Beatrice Gründler, Khouloud Khalfallah, Mahmoud Kozae, Rima Redwan, Johannes Stephan, Isabel Toral.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toral, Isabel

Gruendler, Beatrice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Beatrice Gruendler, Ph.D. (1995), Harvard University is Professor of Arabic at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of The Development of the Arabic Scripts (1993), Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry (2003), The Life and Times of Abu Tammam (2015), and The Rise of the Arabic Book (2020).

Isabel Toral, PhD (1997), Tübingen, is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has published monographs and many articles on Arabic history and literature, including al-Hira (2014) and Baghdad (2022), together with Jens Scheiner.