The notebook of Kamal Al-Din the Weaver

Name: The notebook of Kamal Al-Din the Weaver
Author: Boris Liebrenz (Editor), Kristina Richardson (Editor)

Title	The notebook of Kamal Al-Din the Weaver
Author	Boris Liebrenz (Editor), Kristina Richardson (Editor)
Publication Date:	2021
Publication Place	Beirut - Orient Institut Beirut, De Gruyter Verlag
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	200
Library:	Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID	ISBN : 9783110688870, ISBN : 9786144850886
Record ID	alma99123777053805763
Library Location	Royal Danish Library
Date	2021
Notes	Editors: Boris Liebrenz and Kristina Richardson
İçindekiler	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.

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The notebook of Kamal Al-Din the Weaver

Author Boris Liebrenz (Editor), Kristina Richardson (Editor)

Publication Date 2021

Publication Place Beirut - Orient Institut Beirut, De Gruyter Verlag

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 200

Library Royal Danish Library

Library Asset ID ISBN : 9783110688870, ISBN : 9786144850886

Record ID alma99123777053805763

Library Location Royal Danish Library

Date 2021

Notes Editors: Boris Liebrenz and Kristina Richardson

İçindekiler 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.