Al-Suyu?i, a Polymath of the Mamluk Period
Proceedings of the themed day of the First Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, June 23, 2014)
Published on 10. November 2016
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-90-04-33450-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of several papers devoted to Jalal al-Din al-Suyu?i (d. 911/1505), presented on the First Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (held at Ca' Foscari University,Venice, from June 23 to June 25, 2014). It aims to contribute to a reassessment of the scholarly profile of the controversial but fascinating polymath and intellectual, and, more generally, to a deeper understanding of the cultural, political and academic life of the last period of the Mamluk empire. Jalal al-Din al-Suyu?i's bibliography ranges from law to theology, and from linguistics to history. It includes medicine and geography. This polymath felt that his mission was to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the past, and knowledge in general, from widespread ignorance and decline. Considered for a long time to be an author devoid of any originality and a "simple" compiler, he was in fact an excellent teacher and a rigorous scholar who had a meticulous and accurate working method. With contributions by: Christopher D. Bahl; Mustafa Banister; Joel Blecher; S. R. Burge; Daniela Rodica Firanescu; Eric Geoffroy; Antonella Ghersetti; Francesco Grande; Jaakko Haemeen-Anttila; Takao Ito; Judith Kindinger; Christian Mauder; Aaron Spevack.
Reviews / Votes
"A book containing such a plethora of diversified and wide ranging perspectives to polymath al-Suyuti is more than a tribute to his work. It addresses readers interested in linguistics, theologians, students of history and literature, all those who read travelling, who read in summer and winter, who read on Earth and in heaven, those who read with angels." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-33450-2 (9789004334502)
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Person
Antonella Ghersetti, Ph.D. (Florence, 1998) is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She authored a series of articles and edited monographs on pre-modern Arabic literature and culture. She also translated Arabic texts.
Content
Antonella Ghersetti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Introduction
Geoffroy, Eric (University of Strasbourg), Al-Suyu?i as a Sufi
Spevack, Aaron (Colgate University), Al-Suyu?i, the intolerant ecumenist: law and theology in Ta?yid al-?aqiqa al-?aliya wa-tashyid al-?ariqah al-Shadhiliyya
Ito, Takao (Kobe University), Al-Suyu?i and problems of the waqf
Kindinger, Judith (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Bid?a or sunna: the ?aylasan as a contested garment in the Mamluk period (discussions between al-Suyu?i and others)
Mauder, Christian (University of Goettingen), Al-Suyu?i's stance toward worldly power: a reexamination based on unpublished and understudied sources
Banister, Mustafa (University of Toronto), Casting the caliph in a cosmic role: examining al-Suyu?i's historical vision
Bahl, Christopher D. (SOAS, University of London), Preservation through elaboration: the historicisation of the Abyssinians in al-Suyu?i's Raf? sha?n al-?ubshan
Burge, Stephen R. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), Evidence of self-editing in al-Suyu?i's Ta?bir and Itqan: a comparison of his chapters on Asbab al-nuzul
Blecher, Joel (The George Washington University), "Usefulness without toil": al-Suyu?i and the art of concise ?adith commentary
Grande, Francesco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), History, comparativism and morphology: al-Suyu?i and modern historical linguistics
Haemeen-Anttila, Jaakko (University of Edinburgh), Al-Suyut?i and erotic literature
Firanescu, Daniela Rodica (Dalhousie University, Halifax), Revisiting love and coquetry in Medieval Arabic Islam: al-Suyu?i's perspective
Index of names
Index of titles
Geoffroy, Eric (University of Strasbourg), Al-Suyu?i as a Sufi
Spevack, Aaron (Colgate University), Al-Suyu?i, the intolerant ecumenist: law and theology in Ta?yid al-?aqiqa al-?aliya wa-tashyid al-?ariqah al-Shadhiliyya
Ito, Takao (Kobe University), Al-Suyu?i and problems of the waqf
Kindinger, Judith (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Bid?a or sunna: the ?aylasan as a contested garment in the Mamluk period (discussions between al-Suyu?i and others)
Mauder, Christian (University of Goettingen), Al-Suyu?i's stance toward worldly power: a reexamination based on unpublished and understudied sources
Banister, Mustafa (University of Toronto), Casting the caliph in a cosmic role: examining al-Suyu?i's historical vision
Bahl, Christopher D. (SOAS, University of London), Preservation through elaboration: the historicisation of the Abyssinians in al-Suyu?i's Raf? sha?n al-?ubshan
Burge, Stephen R. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), Evidence of self-editing in al-Suyu?i's Ta?bir and Itqan: a comparison of his chapters on Asbab al-nuzul
Blecher, Joel (The George Washington University), "Usefulness without toil": al-Suyu?i and the art of concise ?adith commentary
Grande, Francesco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), History, comparativism and morphology: al-Suyu?i and modern historical linguistics
Haemeen-Anttila, Jaakko (University of Edinburgh), Al-Suyut?i and erotic literature
Firanescu, Daniela Rodica (Dalhousie University, Halifax), Revisiting love and coquetry in Medieval Arabic Islam: al-Suyu?i's perspective
Index of names
Index of titles