The Notebook of Kamal al-Din the Weaver

Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century
at?-T?ab?a al-u¯la¯
ISBN: 978-3-11-068887-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Arabisch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Gewicht: 597 g

Reihe: an- Našara¯t al-Isla¯mi¯ya

At the end of the 10th / 16th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kamal al-Din 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, Kamal al-Din 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kama¯l-ad-Di¯n

Liebrenz, Boris

Richardson, Kristina L.

Richardson, Kristina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Über Autor(innen)

Kristina Richardson, Queens College, New York, USA; Boris Liebrenz, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften , Leipzig.

Kristina Richardson, Queens College, New York, USA; Boris Liebrenz, Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Kristina Richardson, Queens College, New York, USA; Boris Liebrenz, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig.