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

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2016

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

Volume 5 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110460582

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Florian Sobieroj, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1. Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2. Main categories of variance Publicly Available Download PDF	11
3. Means of stabilization Publicly Available Download PDF	43
4. Cultural background Publicly Available Download PDF	53
5. Corpus of Didactic Poems: Ibn Zurayq, al-Ūshī, Ibn al-Wardī, al-Laqānī Publicly Available Download PDF	107
6. Appendix I: Survey of didactic poems Publicly Available Download PDF	257
7. Appendix II: Synopses of textual variants Publicly Available Download PDF	287
References Publicly Available Download PDF	395
Index of work titles Publicly Available Download PDF	403
Index of persons Publicly Available Download PDF	413
Index of subjects, terms and toponyms Publicly Available Download PDF	423

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Librarians, codicologists, Arabists, Sinologists, scholars of Islamic studies and Sufism.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 430
Keywords: Variance; didactic poetry; orality and writing

eBook

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110460582

Hardcover

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110458695