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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160767903321

Autore

Sobieroj Florian

Titolo

Variance in Arabic manuscripts : Arabic didactic poems from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries - analysis of textual variance and its control in the manuscripts / / Florian Sobieroj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2016

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-046000-9

3-11-046058-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

892.7/13409

Soggetti

Arabic poetry - 750-1258 - History and criticism - Criticism, Textual

Arabic poetry - 1258-1800 - History and criticism - Criticism, Textual

Didactic poetry, Arabic - History and criticism

Manuscripts, Arabic - Islamic Empire

Transmission of texts - Islamic Empire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main categories of variance -- 3. Means of stabilization -- 4. Cultural background -- 5. Corpus of Didactic Poems: Ibn Zurayq, al-Ūshī, Ibn al-Wardī, al-Laqānī -- 6. Appendix I: Survey of didactic poems -- 7. Appendix II: Synopses of textual variants -- References -- Index of work titles -- Index of persons -- Index of subjects, terms and toponyms

Sommario/riassunto

In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the "closed transmission" will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling



them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given.The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers, editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.