In the author's hand : holograph and authorial manuscripts in the Islamic handwritten tradition /
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
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Description: | 1 online resource ( xx, 454 pages) : color illustrations. |
Language: | English French |
Series: | Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 171 Islamic history and civilization ; v. 171. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12321046 |
Summary: | 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-Maqrīzī (m. 845/1442), al-Nuwayrī (m. 733/1333), Akmal al-Dīn b. Mufliḥ (m. 1011/1603), al-ʿAynī (m. 855/1451) and Ibn Khaldūn (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. |
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Item Description: | Based on papers presented at an international conference on Autograph/Holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in Arabic Script, held at the University of Liège,10-11 October 2013. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xx, 454 pages) : color illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004413177 9004413170 9789004413160 |
ISSN: | 0929-2403 ; |