Books and Bibliophiles : Studies in honour of Paul Auchterlonie on the Bio-Bibliography of the Muslim World / ed. by Robert Gleave.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Al-Sarhan, Saud, Contributor.
• Bosworth, C. Edmund, Contributor.
• Buckley, Ronald P., Contributor.
• Colvin, Peter, Contributor.
• El-Enany, Rasheed, Contributor.
• Forbes, Lesley, Contributor.
• Gleave, Robert, Contributor.
• Gleave, Robert, Editor.
• Hopwood, Derek, Contributor.
• Melchert, Christopher, Contributor.
• Musnik, Sara Yontan, Contributor.
• Netton, Ian Richard, Contributor.
• Rizvi, Sajjad H., Contributor.
• Roper, Geoffrey, Contributor.
• Vrolijk, Arnoud, Contributor.
• Witkam, Jan Just, Contributor.

Series:

• Gibb Memorial Trust

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.) : 10 black and white illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The diverse studies presented in this volume recount the production, understanding and organisation of Muslim literature, both in the Muslim world and Western Europe. First, there are bio-bibliographical studies of Middle Eastern and Muslim literature, in which contributors examine texts and their interrelations in a series of discrete studies, demonstrating how bio-bibliography is reliant on the resources devised and maintained by librarians. Recurrent themes include the vexed question of “authorship”; extant books, tracts or reports are attributed to particular authors, but their content, at times, seems to indicate an alternative author. In the second section, the focus is on the advancement of the study of this literary heritage outside of the Muslim world, primarily in Western Europe. These studies describe the processes and individuals within the development of the western study of the Islamicate world and reflect some of the interests of Paul Auchterlonie, to whom the volume is dedicated.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• PART 1 TEXTS, CONTEXTS AND TRANSMISSIONS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
• 2 The Writings of JaÝfar al-ÑÁdiq
• 3 The Creeds of AÎmad Ibn Íanbal
• 4 Sayyid NiÝmatullÁh al-JazÁÞirÐ and his (Literary) Anthologies
• 5 Majlis Readings in the Golden Age of Islam: Text and intertext
• 6 Intellectual Gold? Oxford’s Book of Curiosities and its importance for research on the Middle East and Islamic World
• 7 Translations of Naguib Mahfouz in English
• PART 2 TEXTS, CONTEXTS AND TRANSMISSIONS IN THE WEST
• 8 The Lure of the Near East for European Travellers
• 9 Charles Pellat and the Encyclopaedia of Islam : A personal reminiscence
• 10 Arabic Printing in Scotland: An historical sketch
• 11 ‘The usual Leiden types’ A compositor’s personal account of Brill’s Arabic printing in the late 19th and early 20th century
• 12 L’organisation des collections orientales à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
• 13 Some Arabic Textbooks from Kerala

Notes:

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