Dawn for the Blind in the Craft of Composition

İsim	Dawn for the Blind in the Craft of Composition
Basım Tarihi:	1913
Konu	1300 to 1418, Arabic language, Arabic literature, Arabic poetry, Egypt, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Islamic Empire, Literature, Medieval, Muslims, Poetry, Syrian Arab Republic
Tür	Kitap
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Harvard Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	LCCN: 2021666293
Kayıt Numarası	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2021666293
Lokasyon	ONLINE ACCESS
Tarih	1913
Notlar	Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá (Dawn for the blind), as this encyclopedic masterpiece is commonly known, was compiled by medieval Egyptian scholar Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356-1418) for the secretaries in the chancery of the sultans of Egypt. Scholars have long mined the work for the information it contains on a wide variety of cultural and literary topics, for example the histories of Egypt and Syria, non-Muslim populations in the Muslim world, state formation and administration, calligraphy, libraries, and even codes and cyphers. Scholars have also produced many critical analyses of the structure and sources of the work itself. Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá has been praised for its convenient organization. Although it contains no general index in the modern sense, its plentiful headings and subheadings make the work easy to navigate. It is not a literary anthology, but it gathers together poetry and, especially, prose writing from the early period of Islam to the author's own day. Surprisingly little is known about the author. He was born in the Egyptian delta town of Qalqashandah into a family distinguished for its Arabian tribal origins. He received a classic education from teachers in Alexandria and Cairo. In middle age he was appointed secretary at the court of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, Barquq (died 1399). For this reason, al-Qalqashandi is often considered more an administrative official than an historian or literary authority. He was a close analyst of the skills and knowledge necessary for the successful bureaucrat. He worked in the service of Barquq for ten years, and devoted a decade to compiling Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá, presumably both during his working life and in his retirement. The work was printed in Cairo between 1913 and 1922 under the supervision of Muhammad 'Abd al-Rasul Ibrahim, chief literary editor of the government press (al-Matba'ah al-Amiriyah), who provided a brief comment on the book's importance and organization as well as a short biography of the author. This edition runs to 14 volumes.
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Dawn for the Blind in the Craft of Composition

Basım Tarihi 1913

Konu 1300 to 1418, Arabic language, Arabic literature, Arabic poetry, Egypt, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Islamic Empire, Literature, Medieval, Muslims, Poetry, Syrian Arab Republic

Tür Kitap

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Harvard Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası LCCN: 2021666293

Kayıt Numarası TN_cdi_loca_primary_2021666293

Lokasyon ONLINE ACCESS

Tarih 1913

Notlar Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá (Dawn for the blind), as this encyclopedic masterpiece is commonly known, was compiled by medieval Egyptian scholar Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356-1418) for the secretaries in the chancery of the sultans of Egypt. Scholars have long mined the work for the information it contains on a wide variety of cultural and literary topics, for example the histories of Egypt and Syria, non-Muslim populations in the Muslim world, state formation and administration, calligraphy, libraries, and even codes and cyphers. Scholars have also produced many critical analyses of the structure and sources of the work itself. Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá has been praised for its convenient organization. Although it contains no general index in the modern sense, its plentiful headings and subheadings make the work easy to navigate. It is not a literary anthology, but it gathers together poetry and, especially, prose writing from the early period of Islam to the author's own day. Surprisingly little is known about the author. He was born in the Egyptian delta town of Qalqashandah into a family distinguished for its Arabian tribal origins. He received a classic education from teachers in Alexandria and Cairo. In middle age he was appointed secretary at the court of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, Barquq (died 1399). For this reason, al-Qalqashandi is often considered more an administrative official than an historian or literary authority. He was a close analyst of the skills and knowledge necessary for the successful bureaucrat. He worked in the service of Barquq for ten years, and devoted a decade to compiling Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá, presumably both during his working life and in his retirement. The work was printed in Cairo between 1913 and 1922 under the supervision of Muhammad 'Abd al-Rasul Ibrahim, chief literary editor of the government press (al-Matba'ah al-Amiriyah), who provided a brief comment on the book's importance and organization as well as a short biography of the author. This edition runs to 14 volumes.

Kaynak Library of Congress Digital Collections: All Content

Başlık Dawn for the Blind in the Craft of Composition