Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2021-08-05 DOI:10.1163/24519197-bja10023
Salam Rassi
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This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the intersections between their scribal and printing activities. I also discuss works of grammar, logic, and rhetoric in the NEST’s collection. Most of these are by late medieval and early modern authors and contain extensive commentaries and glosses. This commentary culture was a key site of learning throughout the early modern Ottoman Empire and endured among Christian as well as Muslim intellectuals of the nahḍa movement. The persistence of these scribal and intellectual traditions reveals a longue durée of Islamicate scholarly traditions that is only beginning to be understood by historians of Arab modernity.
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印刷之初的抄写和评论传统:作为早期Nah档案的近东神学院手稿ḍ一
本文主要研究近东神学院(NEST)的阿拉伯语手稿集。NEST图书馆收藏了几份手稿,这些手稿是由nah的重要基督徒出生的知识分子捐赠、复制或阅读的ḍa.鉴于这些人在中东现代出版业的兴起中所扮演的角色,我研究了他们的涂鸦和印刷活动之间的交叉点。我还讨论了NEST收藏的语法、逻辑和修辞作品。其中大多数是中世纪晚期和现代早期的作者,包含大量的评论和注释。这种评论文化是整个现代奥斯曼帝国早期的一个重要学习场所,并在当时的基督教和穆斯林知识分子中持续存在ḍ一场运动。这些书写和知识传统的持久性揭示了伊斯兰学术传统的长期存在,而阿拉伯现代性历史学家才刚刚开始理解这一传统。
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