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An Unruly Classic, Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions
Series: - Global Arabic Literary Cultures, Volume: 2
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.
Contributors: Theodore S. Beers, Jan J. van Ginkel, Beatrice Gründler, Khouloud Khalfallah, Mahmoud Kozae, Rima Redwan, Johannes Stephan, Isabel Toral.
Beatrice Gruendler, Ph.D. (1995), Harvard University is Professor of Arabic at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of The Development of the Arabic Scripts (1993), Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry (2003), The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (2015), and The Rise of the Arabic Book (2020).
Isabel Toral, PhD (1997), Tübingen, is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has published monographs and many articles on Arabic history and literature, including al-Hira (2014) and Baghdad (2022), together with Jens Scheiner.
Isabel Toral, PhD (1997), Tübingen, is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has published monographs and many articles on Arabic history and literature, including al-Hira (2014) and Baghdad (2022), together with Jens Scheiner.
All interested in literary manuscripts, linguistic and textual traditions, Arabic literature and world literature.