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Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«, a Polymath of the MamlÅ«k Period
Proceedings of the themed day of the First Conference of the School of MamlÅ«k Studies (Caâ Foscari University, Venice, June 23, 2014)
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 138
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This volume is a collection of several papers devoted to JalÄl al-DÄ«n al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« (d. 911/1505), presented on the First Conference of the School of MamlÅ«k Studies (held at Caâ Foscari University,Venice, from June 23 to June 25, 2014). It aims to contribute to a reassessment of the scholarly profile of the controversial but fascinating polymath and intellectual, and, more generally, to a deeper understanding of the cultural, political and academic life of the last period of the MamlÅ«k empire. JalÄl al-DÄ«n al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«'s bibliography ranges from law to theology, and from linguistics to history. It includes medicine and geography. This polymath felt that his mission was to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the past, and knowledge in general, from widespread ignorance and decline. Considered for a long time to be an author devoid of any originality and a âsimpleâ compiler, he was in fact an excellent teacher and a rigorous scholar who had a meticulous and accurate working method. With contributions by: Christopher D. Bahl; Mustafa Banister; Joel Blecher; S. R. Burge; Daniela Rodica Firanescu; Ãric Geoffroy; Antonella Ghersetti; Francesco Grande; Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila; Takao Ito; Judith Kindinger; Christian Mauder; Aaron Spevack.
Antonella Ghersetti, Ph.D. (Florence, 1998) is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Caâ Foscari University of Venice. She authored a series of articles and edited monographs on pre-modern Arabic literature and culture. She also translated Arabic texts.
"A book containing such a plethora of diversified and wide ranging perspectives to polymath al-Suyuti is more than a tribute to his work. It addresses readers interested in linguistics, theologians, students of history and literature, all those who read travelling, who read in summer and winter, who read on Earth and in heaven, those who read with angels." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)
Antonella Ghersetti (Caâ Foscari University of Venice), Introduction
Geoffroy, Ãric (University of Strasbourg), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« as a Sufi
Spevack, Aaron (Colgate University), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«, the intolerant ecumenist: law and theology in TaʾyÄ«d al-ḥaqÄ«qa al-Ê¿Äliya wa-tashyÄ«d al-á¹arÄ«qah al-ShÄdhiliyya
Ito, Takao (Kobe University), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and problems of the waqf
Kindinger, Judith (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), BidÊ¿a or sunna: the á¹aylasÄn as a contested garment in the MamlÅ«k period (discussions between al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and others)
Mauder, Christian (University of Göttingen), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs stance toward worldly power: a reexamination based on unpublished and understudied sources
Banister, Mustafa (University of Toronto), Casting the caliph in a cosmic role: examining al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs historical vision
Bahl, Christopher D. (SOAS, University of London), Preservation through elaboration: the historicisation of the Abyssinians in al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs RafÊ¿ shaʾn al-ḤubshÄn
Burge, Stephen R. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), Evidence of self-editing in al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs TaḥbÄ«r and ItqÄn: a comparison of his chapters on AsbÄb al-nuzÅ«l
Blecher, Joel (The George Washington University), âUsefulness without toilâ: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and the art of concise ḥadÄ«th commentary
Grande, Francesco (Caâ Foscari University of Venice), History, comparativism and morphology: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and modern historical linguistics
Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko (University of Edinburgh), Al-Suyūṭī and erotic literature
Firanescu, Daniela Rodica (Dalhousie University, Halifax), Revisiting love and coquetry in Medieval Arabic Islam: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs perspective
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Index of titles
Geoffroy, Ãric (University of Strasbourg), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« as a Sufi
Spevack, Aaron (Colgate University), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«, the intolerant ecumenist: law and theology in TaʾyÄ«d al-ḥaqÄ«qa al-Ê¿Äliya wa-tashyÄ«d al-á¹arÄ«qah al-ShÄdhiliyya
Ito, Takao (Kobe University), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and problems of the waqf
Kindinger, Judith (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), BidÊ¿a or sunna: the á¹aylasÄn as a contested garment in the MamlÅ«k period (discussions between al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and others)
Mauder, Christian (University of Göttingen), Al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs stance toward worldly power: a reexamination based on unpublished and understudied sources
Banister, Mustafa (University of Toronto), Casting the caliph in a cosmic role: examining al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs historical vision
Bahl, Christopher D. (SOAS, University of London), Preservation through elaboration: the historicisation of the Abyssinians in al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs RafÊ¿ shaʾn al-ḤubshÄn
Burge, Stephen R. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), Evidence of self-editing in al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs TaḥbÄ«r and ItqÄn: a comparison of his chapters on AsbÄb al-nuzÅ«l
Blecher, Joel (The George Washington University), âUsefulness without toilâ: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and the art of concise ḥadÄ«th commentary
Grande, Francesco (Caâ Foscari University of Venice), History, comparativism and morphology: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« and modern historical linguistics
Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko (University of Edinburgh), Al-Suyūṭī and erotic literature
Firanescu, Daniela Rodica (Dalhousie University, Halifax), Revisiting love and coquetry in Medieval Arabic Islam: al-SuyÅ«á¹Ä«âs perspective
Index of names
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Arabists, Islamists, historians of the Middle East, historians of religions, philologists and everyone interested in the pre-modern Arab world and civilization.