An Unruly Classic Kalila And Dimna And Its Syriac Arabic And Early Persian Versions
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Author | : Isabel Toral |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004693562 |
In this volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss the variation and mutability of this textual tradition from the 8th to the 19th century. The aim is to establish typologies of these phenomena across linguistic traditions and historical periods .
Author | : Isabel Toral |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2024-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9004693572 |
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.
Author | : Glenn W. Most |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 311105456X |
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means – either orally or by hand – inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because of inattention, confusion, misunderstanding, deliberate modification, physical damage, and many other factors. In general, the more a text is reproduced, the more variations are likely to occur. But although the fact of textual variation in general is doubtless an anthropological universal, the specific forms it takes and the specific attitudes to its occurrence seem to vary widely from culture to culture. How variations develop in different cultures, on the basis of which forms of scholarly practices, collaborations, and institutional frameworks; what variants say about a culture’s understandings of text, authorship, and collective authorship; what happens when variants become creative and generate their own strands of tradition; to what degree changes in transmission media and processes of distribution, translations, or the migration of texts into different cultural or institutional contexts can influence or be influenced by the development of variants – these are the questions that this book addresses in a historical and culturally comparative perspective.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2022-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900452178X |
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature, a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer, includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries).
Author | : A. C. S. Peacock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108499368 |
A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.
Author | : Reynold Alleyne Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Arabic literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard O'Kane |
Publisher | : I. B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003-08-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781860648526 |
Kalila wa Dimna (or The Fables of Bidpai ) is one of the gems of world culture, having been translated through the centuries everywhere from China to Spain. Kalila wa Dimna are subtle and suggestive moral tales– a kind of repository of wisdom and understanding about the human condition. It was the most commonly illustrated medieval Islamic texts. This book focuses on the group of seven Persian manuscripts from the second half of the 14th century, which contain several of the finest masterpieces of Persian painting. It is fully illistrated throughout with the paintings that accompany the fables.
Author | : Walid Shoebat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Islam and politics |
ISBN | : 9780977102181 |
Proposes that the Middle East and the Islamic faith--rather than Europe and Christianity--will initiate the End of Times, discussing the connections between the Bible, current world events, the Koran, and the Antichrist.
Author | : Prue Shaw |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0871407809 |
The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante’s poetry—the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante’s answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers. Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who’ve never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.
Author | : Salma Khadra Jayyusi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231132541 |
"Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists."--Jacket.