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Al-Suyūṭī, a polymath of the Mamlūk period : proceedings of the themed day of the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, June 23, 2014)
This volume is a collection of several papers devoted to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505), presented on the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk 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 Mamlūk empire. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's bibliography ranges from law to theology, and from linguistics to history. It includes medicine and geography. He 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, this polymath 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; Stephen R. Burge; Daniela Rodica Firanescu; Éric Geoffroy; Antonella Ghersetti; Francesco Grande; Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila; Takao Ito; Judith Kindinger; Christian Mauder; Aaron Spevack.
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Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century. By Alexander Key
Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century. By Alexander Key. Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 267. $34.95.
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L’INTELLIGENZA DEGLI ANIMALI NEL KITĀB AL-AḎKIYĀʾ DI IBN AL-ǦAWZĪ
Our article consists of the translation, with introduction and notes, of the thirty-second chapter of Ibn al-Ǧawzī’s Kitāb Aḫbār al-aḏkiyāʾ. This chapter contains sayings, proverbs, and anecdotes that aim to represent the particular kind of intelligence of animals and its resemblance to human intelligence.
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DE L’ÉLOGE (ET DU BLÂME) DANS LES ANTHOLOGIES D’ADAB
The antonymic relationship of praise and blame is a major feature of Arabic literary production. In poetry praise and blame are respectively represented by the genres madīḥ and hiǧāʾ, that are sometimes composed in turn on the very same object or person. In prose, this antonymic relationship, taking the form of antithesis, becomes an organizational pattern that gives origin to al-maḥāsin wa-l-masāwī genre. This pattern was applied in works such as the anthologies of al-Ṯaʿālibī (429/1038) and the last example of the genre, Ġurar al-ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-wāḍiha wa-ʿurar al-naqāʾiḍ al-fāḍiḥa, of Ǧamāl al-Dīn al-Waṭwāṭ (718/1318). Our article deals with functions and modalities of the antithetic pattern praise / blame in some adab anthologies.
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Systematizing the Description of Arabic: The Case of Ibn al-Sarrāj
This paper will focus on the Arabic grammatical tradition and, in particular, on the new arrangement, in the 4th/10th c., of grammatical matters already elaborated in the first centuries of Islam. With this aim in mind we will take into consideration two representative grammatical treatises of the 8th c. and the 10th c.: Sībawayh’s
and Ibn al-Sarrāj’s
, which both represent watershed moments in the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition. Abū Bakr ibn al-Sarrāj’s philosophical training is obvious in the way he approaches the subject through the precise description of single items and in the laboured logic of the subdivision of his treatises. He follows the principle of “comprehensive subdivisions” (
) borrowed from the logic he had studied under the direction of al-Fārābī. Ibn al-Sarrāj’s method of organizing and introducing linguistic matters will be contrasted with the approach of the father of Arabic grammar, Sībawayh, who wrote – two centuries earlier – the most comprehensive description of Arabic.
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MEDICI SAGACI. ANEDDOTI DAL KITĀB AḪBĀR AL-AḎKIYĀʾ DI IBN AL-ǦAWZĪ
After a brief introduction about the image of the physician in Arabic literature, the article presents the complete translation of the twenty-sixth chapter of the Kitāb Aḫbār al-aḏkiyāʾ of Ibn al-Ǧawzī, which is devoted to stories about the wisdom of those who practice medicine. The anecdotes contained therein, although obviously literary in their approach, give nevertheless a vivid representation of the particular acumen of physicians in diagnosing and applying effective therapies.
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THE LANGUAGE(S) OF THE ARABS IN AL-MAQRĪZĪ'S \AL-ḪABAR ʿAN AL-BAŠAR\
Al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442) conceived al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar as the history of humankind from the beginning of Creation until the appearance of the Arabs and their division into several tribes. The author copied the six volumes of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar in his own hand; all of them, excepting the second, have been preserved. Linguistic issues are treated in different passages of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar and in two of them 'the language of the Arabs' is dealt with in depth. In this article, based on the extant holograph, we give a synopsis of the contents of these passages and an identification of the sources. This aims at highlighting the peculiar slant this historian gave to the discussion on Arabic and at his ability to locate rare sources, whose many are in fact still unpublished, lost or little known.
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\Tell, but do not say\: The Taqwim al-lisan of Ibn al'Gawzi
This note aims at a brief presentation of the Taqwim al-lisan, a relatively little known work of Ibn al-Gawzi (d. 597/1200) belonging to the genre Iahn al-amma. Among the several interesting features of this short treatise the most noteworthy is perhaps the relative originality of the linguistic phenomena described therein. In this paper the Taqwim al-lisan is set in the context of linguistic controversies which were a widespread practice among Arab philologists. The usefulness of this kind of literature in relation with the history of the Arabic language is also tentatively assessed. Adapted from the source document
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