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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Bibliotheca Islamica. The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver
:
Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century
Enthält:
Frontmatter
Chapter 1
Index of personal names
Index of places
Illustrations
Literature and sources
The place of Kamāl al-Dīn’s work in the tradition of diaristic and historical writings in Arabic and the region
A weaver’s notebook: Context, content, and history
Preface
Table of Contents
Beschreibung:
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