The Notebook of Kam?l al-D?n the Weaver (eBook)

Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century

Boris Liebrenz, Kristina L. Richardson (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-068892-4 (ISBN)

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At the end of the 10^th / 16^th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kam?l al-D?n would regularly take his time to fill blank pages with his varied observations. But it was not a linear narrative he produced, nor was it a diary. Rather, he scribbled down accounts on the political and social life of his city and the region; the climate; economic developments; his craft; poetry, much of it his own; anecdotes; reading excerpts; obituaries of dignitaries and friends; history. In doing so, Kam?l al-D?n upends assumptions about literary agency, faith, and class in the Ottoman Arab provinces and thus gives us insights rarely seen in other contemporary works.

Only a fragment of what once must have been a sizeable work survives, now preserved in the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha under the shelfmark MS orient. A 114. It represents the earliest known Arabic notebook of an artisan or merchant.

Kristina Richardson, Queens College, New York, USA; Boris Liebrenz, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften , Leipzig.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2023
• Sprache: arabisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• ISBN-10: 3-11-068892-1 / 3110688921
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-068892-4 / 9783110688924