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Marginal Matters
Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures
Series: - Bibliotheca Arabica, Volume: 1
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For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and supplementing the main text. This volume sheds light on such scribal practices in Arabic manuscripts, investigating diverse techniques and approaches across the vast geographical and temporal range of the Arabic manuscript age. What similarities and differences can we observe regarding place, time, and subject? And what can we learn from these annotations in the margins or between the lines?
This volume is the first to focus specifically on the rich tradition of marginal commentaries in Arabic manuscripts and seeks to establish the study of commentary and glossing practices as an important source for the history of Arabic literature, Islamic intellectual history, and comparative manuscript studies.
Contributors are Berat Açıl, Philip Bockholt, Stefanie Brinkmann, Nadja Danilenko, Verena Klemm, Boris Liebrenz, Nadine Löhr, Darya Ogorodnikova, Deborah Schlein and Florian Sobieroj.
This volume is the first to focus specifically on the rich tradition of marginal commentaries in Arabic manuscripts and seeks to establish the study of commentary and glossing practices as an important source for the history of Arabic literature, Islamic intellectual history, and comparative manuscript studies.
Contributors are Berat Açıl, Philip Bockholt, Stefanie Brinkmann, Nadja Danilenko, Verena Klemm, Boris Liebrenz, Nadine Löhr, Darya Ogorodnikova, Deborah Schlein and Florian Sobieroj.
Stefanie Brinkmann, Ph.D., is research fellow at the “Bibliotheca Arabica” project (Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig). She is trained in the fields of Arabic, Islamic, Persian, and Roman Studies, and published on Arabic poetry, hadith, and manuscript studies.
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Mapping the Field
Stefanie Brinkmann
1 Putting Margins in Context: Some Practical Considerations
Boris Liebrenz
2 Filling in the Blanks: Annotating Soninke Ajami Manuscripts
Darya Ogorodnikova
3 At the High End of Learning: Note-Taking and Commentary Practices of a Nineteenth-Century Ismaili Scholar in India
Verena Klemm
4 Annotation Systems and Symbols in Arabic Manuscripts on Astral Sciences
Nadine Löhr
5 Citations in the Margins: a Reader’s Education in South Asian Ṭibb
Deborah Schlein
6 No Comment: Marginalia in Geographic Literature from the Tenth Century Onwards
Nadja Danilenko
7 Partisan Readers: Fighting over the Interpretation of History in the Margins of MS BnF, Arabe 1825
Boris Liebrenz
8 Footnotes in Premodern Times? On the Phenomenon of Minhiyyāt in Persian Texts
Philip Bockholt
9 Cārullāh Efendī (d. 1151/1738) on Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240): Correcting Misconception via Manuscript Notes
Berat Açıl
10 The Unique Copy of Ibn Khafīf’s Collection of Transmitted Prayers
Codicology, Marginalia, Paratexts, and Transmitters’ Strategies
Florian Sobieroj
11 Struggling with the Margin – Studying Marginal Commentaries in a Hadith Collection: Al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna
Stefanie Brinkmann
Conclusion: Common Traits and Differences
Stefanie Brinkmann
Index
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Mapping the Field
Stefanie Brinkmann
Part 1: Methodological Approaches and Issues of Classification
1 Putting Margins in Context: Some Practical Considerations
Boris Liebrenz
2 Filling in the Blanks: Annotating Soninke Ajami Manuscripts
Darya Ogorodnikova
3 At the High End of Learning: Note-Taking and Commentary Practices of a Nineteenth-Century Ismaili Scholar in India
Verena Klemm
Part 2: Sciences
4 Annotation Systems and Symbols in Arabic Manuscripts on Astral Sciences
Nadine Löhr
5 Citations in the Margins: a Reader’s Education in South Asian Ṭibb
Deborah Schlein
Part 3: History and Geography
6 No Comment: Marginalia in Geographic Literature from the Tenth Century Onwards
Nadja Danilenko
7 Partisan Readers: Fighting over the Interpretation of History in the Margins of MS BnF, Arabe 1825
Boris Liebrenz
8 Footnotes in Premodern Times? On the Phenomenon of Minhiyyāt in Persian Texts
Philip Bockholt
Part 4: Religion
9 Cārullāh Efendī (d. 1151/1738) on Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240): Correcting Misconception via Manuscript Notes
Berat Açıl
10 The Unique Copy of Ibn Khafīf’s Collection of Transmitted Prayers
Codicology, Marginalia, Paratexts, and Transmitters’ Strategies
Florian Sobieroj
11 Struggling with the Margin – Studying Marginal Commentaries in a Hadith Collection: Al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna
Stefanie Brinkmann
Conclusion: Common Traits and Differences
Stefanie Brinkmann
Index
The volume addresses interdisciplinary audiences of students and researchers in manuscript studies, and advanced students and scholars of Muslim intellectual history. Specialists in one of the chapter fields will benefit from the case-studies.