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The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver : Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- At the end of the 10th / 16th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kamāl al-Dīn would regularly take his time to fill blank pages with his varied observations. But it was not a linear narrative he produced, nor was it a diary. Rather, he scribbled down accounts on the political and social life of his city and the region; the climate; economic developments; his craft; poetry, much of it his own; anecdotes; reading excerpts; obituaries of dignitaries and friends; history. In doing so, Kamāl al-Dīn upends assumptions about literary agency, faith, and class in the Ottoman Arab provinces and thus gives us insights rarely seen in other contemporary works. Only a fragment of what once must have been a sizeable work survives, now preserved in the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha under the shelfmark MS orient. A 114. It represents the earliest known Arabic notebook of an artisan or merchant.
- Subjects :
- Civilization, Modern--16th century
Autobiography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Arabic
- ISBNs :
- 9783110688870 and 9783110688924
- Volume :
- 00059
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver : Aleppine notes from the end of the 16th century
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 3528938