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Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves

2021-07-12 History
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Book Synopsis Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves by : Kristof D'hulster

Download or read book Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves written by Kristof D'hulster. This book was released on 2021-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves

2021
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Book Synopsis Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves by : Kristof D'hulster

Download or read book Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves written by Kristof D'hulster. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

2024-02-08 History
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Release : 2024-02-08
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Book Synopsis Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by : A.C.S. Peacock

Download or read book Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by A.C.S. Peacock. This book was released on 2024-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to light a large number of hitherto unknown texts produced at or for the courts of Southeast Asia, and examines the role of royal patronage in supporting Arabic literary production in Southeast Asia.

Crafting History

2023-03-28 History
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Release : 2023-03-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Crafting History by : Rachel Goshgarian

Download or read book Crafting History written by Rachel Goshgarian. This book was released on 2023-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.

The Lost Libraries of Tunis

2024-08-19 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2024-08-19
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Lost Libraries of Tunis by : Laura Hinrichsen

Download or read book The Lost Libraries of Tunis written by Laura Hinrichsen. This book was released on 2024-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only little is known about the book culture of Tunis, although the city had been a centre for teaching and learning throughout Ḥafṣid rule in Ifrīqiya (c. 1230 to 1574). The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by the armies of the emperor Charles V in the summer of 1535. This study reconstructs for the first time the original holdings of Tunis' medieval libraries and shows what can still be learned from these recovered fragments. An in-depth analysis of a wide range of texts and artefacts shows that the Ḥafṣid libraries were looted and their collections redistributed, mostly among European collectors. The Lost Libraries of Tunis brings Early Modern scholarship on Arabic texts and language into context by utilising the manuscripts from Ifrīqiya as a source to map the interest in, and scholarship on, Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. With an art-historical and sociohistorical interpretation of the reconstructed manuscript corpus, The Lost Libraries of Tunis challenges views accepted among Islamic art historians and describes a dynamic and vivid regional book culture of the Maghreb embedded in the wider Arabic manuscript tradition, precisely showing strong interaction and exchange.

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