The Notebook of Kamal al-Din the Weaver (eBook, PDF)

Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century
Redaktion: Liebrenz, Boris; Richardson, Kristina L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At the end of the 10^th / 16^th 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2023
• Arabisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110688924
• Artikelnr.: 67291819