Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
Ausgabe:
Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783110688924
Serie:
Bibliotheca Islamica 59
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter
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Chapter 1
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Index of personal names
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Index of places
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Illustrations
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Literature and sources
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The place of Kamāl al-Dīn’s work in the tradition of diaristic and historical writings in Arabic and the region
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A weaver’s notebook: Context, content, and history
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Preface
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Table of Contents
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Issued also in print
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In Arabic
Weitere Ausg.:
9783110688870
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als print 9783110688870
Sprache:
Arabisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110688924
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