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This book marks a major contribution to the study of Arabic illustrated manuscripts of Kalīla wa-Dimna and its Persian and Ottoman versions. The studies gathered in this volume showcase a wide diversity of approaches crossing textual investigation, codicological and iconographic study, and laboratory analysis. Ce livre constitue une contribution majeure à l'étude des manuscrits arabes illustrés de Kalīla wa-Dimna et de ses versions persane et ottomane. Les articles rassemblés dans ce volume montrent une grande diversité d'approches, croisant investigation textuelle, étude codicologique et iconographique et analyses physico-chimiques.
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means – either orally or by hand – inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because of inattention, confusion, misunderstanding, deliberate modification, physical damage, and many other factors. In general, the more a text is reproduced, the more variations are likely to occur. But although the fact of textual variation i...
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed...
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
In this collected volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of their work with this textual tradition: the study of variation and mutability. The aim is to shed light on Kalīla and Dimna’s so-called mouvance and establish typologies of textual mobility and instability across linguistic traditions and historical periods, as well as to develop analytical tools to describe, classify, represent, and interpret these dynamics. As will be shown, the progressive digitalization of philology in the last decades has offered the unique opportunity of putting the concept of mouvance into practice. Contributors: Theodore S. Beers, Jan J. van Ginkel, Beatrice Gründler, Khouloud Khalfallah, Mahmoud Kozae, Rima Redwan, Johannes Stephan, Isabel Toral.
The Festschrift Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam brings together a set of contributions at the forefront of research on the theme of the manuscript book, writing and image in Islam, from all periods. Les mélanges Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam réunissent un ensemble de contributions à la pointe de la recherche sur le thème du livre manuscrit, de l’écrit et de l’image en Islam, toutes périodes confondues.
Offrir un large panorama de l'histoire, politique et militaire, économique et sociale, religieuse et culturelle, des mondes musulmans médiévaux, de l'Antiquité tardive aux débuts de l'époque moderne, telle est l'ambition du présent Atlas, qui s'appuie sur près de deux cents cartes originales, à toutes les échelles, accompagnées de textes, d'extraits de sources et d'illustrations. Les conquêtes islamiques ont contribué à la formation d'un vaste ensemble de territoires où les musulmans ont détenu le pouvoir politique, dominant des peuples aux coutumes, langues et religions différentes. Il s'étendait sur trois continents – d'al-Andalus à l'ouest à l'Inde islamisée à l'es...
This volume is in honour of Monik Kervran, a pioneer of the French Islamic archaeology in the Middle East. Through the nineteen international contributions found within, the editors and contributors wish to highlight the variety of Monik Kervran’s scientific interests.
Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text. It rejects earlier scholarly habits of analysing paintings in isolation, and proposes the integration of text and image as a more satisfactory framework within which to elucidate the characteristics and functions of this impressive body of work.