The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28825-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Islamic Manuscripts and Books

The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition contributes to the study of the manuscript codex and its role in scholastic culture in Yemen. Ranging in period from Islam’s first century to the modern period, all the articles in this volume emerge from the close scrutiny of the manuscripts of Yemen. As a group, these studies demonstrate the range and richness of scholarly methods closely tied to the material text, and the importance of cross-pollination in the fields of codicology, textual criticism, and social and intellectual history.

Contributors are: Hassan Ansari, Menashe Anzi, Asma Hilali, Kerstin Hünefeld, Wilferd Madelung, Arianna D’Ottone, Christoph Rauch, Anne Regourd, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb and Jan Thiele.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollenberg, David

Rauch, Christoph

Schmidtke, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
David Hollenberg, Christoph Rauch, Sabine Schmidtke

List of contributors

Was the San'a' Qur'an Palimpsest a Work in Progress?
Asma Hilali

Yusuf al-Basir’s Rebuttal of Abu l-Husayn al-Basri in a Yemeni Zaydi Manuscript of the 7th/13th Century
Hassan Ansari, Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke

MS Berlin, State Library, Glaser 51: A Unique Manuscript From the Early 7th/13th-Century Bahšamite Milieu in Yemen
Hassan Ansari and Jan Thiele

The Pearl and the Ruby: Scribal Dicta and Other Metatextual Notes in Yemeni Mediaeval Manuscripts
Arianna D’Ottone

The Literary-Religious Tradition Among 7th/13th-Century Yemeni Zaydis (II): The Case of 'Abd Allah b. Zayd al-'Ansi (d. 667/1269)
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke

MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydi Kalam-Studies During the Tahirid and Early Qasimite Periods (mid-15th—early 18th centuries)
Gregor Schwarb

Zaydi Scholars on the Move: A Multitext Manuscript by Yahya Ibn Humayd al-Miqra'i (b. 908/1503, d. 990/1582) and Other Contemporary Sources
Christoph Rauch

Papiers filigranés de manuscrits de Zabid, premier tiers du XVIIIe-milieu du XXe siècle: papiers importés et 'locaux'
Anne Regourd

San'a', Jerusalem, New York: Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States
Menashe Anzi and Kerstin Hünefeld

Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Books

Über Autor(innen)

David Hollenberg (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. His recent publications include "The Empire Writes Back: Fatimid-Isma'ili Ta'wil (allegoresis) and the Mysteries of the Ancient Greeks” (in The Study of Shi'i Islam: The State of the Field, Issues of Methodology and Recent Developments, ed. F. Daftary and G. Miskinzoda, London, Tauris, 2014), and Neoplatonism in Early Fatimid Doctrine: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Prologue of the Kitab al-fatarat wa-l-qiranat (The Book of Periods and Conjunctions) (Le Muséon 2010). He is the director of the Yemeni Manuscripts Digitization initiative, a scholarly collective devoted to preserving the manuscripts of Yemen.

Christoph Rauch is Director of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library. He studied Arabic and religion at the University of Leipzig. His research interests cover Islam, manuscripts in Yemen, and the history of Oriental collections in the Western world.

Sabine Schmidtke (D.Phil. University of Oxford) is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history. Her works include Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts. Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i (um 838/1434-35 - nach 906/1501) (Leiden 2000), and, together with Reza Pourjavady, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad. 'Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammuna and his Writings (Leiden 2006).