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The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver : Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century /
At the end of the 10th / 16th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kamāl al-Dīn 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 politi...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Arabic |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Bibliotheca Islamica ;
59 |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the end of the 10th / 16th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kamāl al-Dīn 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, Kamāl al-Dīn 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9783110688924 3110688921 |