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

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.

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 m...

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Main Author: Sobieroj, Florian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Series:Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 5.
Subjects:
750-1800
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Arabic poetry
Didactic poetry, Arabic
Manuscripts, Arabic
Transmission of texts
Islamic Empire
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction ; 1.1 State of the art ; 1.2 Programme of work ; 1.3 Manuscript as a medium ; 1.4 Corpus of manuscripts studied ; 2 Main categories of variance ; 2.1 Work titles ; 2.2 Textual Variance ; 2.3 Variance relating to the number and sequence of verses.
  • 2.4 Variance in relation to page layout 2.5 Variance in relation to context ; 2.6 Variance in dependency of the medium ; 3 Means of stabilization ; 3.1 Deletion ; 3.2 Substitution ; 3.3 Addition ; 3.4 Correction of verse divisions ; 3.5 Vocalization ; 3.6 Glosses.
  • 3.6.1 Content-related explanations 3.6.2 Explanations by synonyms ; 3.7 Syntactical explanatory markers ; 3.8 Signs of reference ; 3.9 Collation ; 3.10 Abbreviations of authorities ; 3.11 Place of insertion of manuscript notes relating to control of text variance ; 3.12 Evaluation.
  • 4 Cultural background 4.1 Didactic Poems and the institutions of learning ; 4.1.1 Elementary education ; 4.1.2 The madrasa ; 4.1.2.1 The classroom situation ; 4.1.2.2 Curriculum ; 4.1.2.3 Didactic poems in some scholars' fahrasa.
  • 4.1.2.4 Didactic poetry in the Core Curriculum of West Africa and the Southern Sahara 4.1.2.5 A case study: Didactic poetry in an Algerian Sufi convent ; 4.2 Orality, scripturality and memorization ; 4.2.1 The oral and the written ; 4.2.1.1 Ijazat ; 4.2.2 Memory and memorization.

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