Address: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities Akademievorhaben "Bibliotheca Arabica - neue Geschichte der arabischen Literatur" - Strohsackpassage 6-10, 04109 Leipzig
Between Morocco and Indonesia and beyond. Essays in honour of Irene Schneider. Edited by Fritz Schulze. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag 2024 (Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History.6.), pp. 235-250 (PRE-PRINT Version) , 2024
In this essay, the Kitāb al-Ḥawāšī ʿalā Daʿāʾim [al-Islām], a Hadith commentary by the Ismaili ... more In this essay, the Kitāb al-Ḥawāšī ʿalā Daʿāʾim [al-Islām], a Hadith commentary by the Ismaili legal scholar Ibn Ǧalāl b. Ḥasan al-Amīnǧī (st. 1010/1602) from Ahmadabad, is presented and contextualized in terms of content, form and function, as well in terms of its transregional relationship to the Fatimid Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (d. 363/974) and the Ṭayyibīs in Yemen, who have been the transmitters of this foundational work of Ismaili law as well as of other works of the Qāḍī to the Bohra community in Gujarat.
The last part of the essay is dedicated to the rather obscure history of the manuscript (University Library Tübingen, Ma VI-321).
Abstract
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the speci... more Abstract
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the special, mostly precarious situation of Ismaili manuscripts. It sheds light on the history of a group of 42 Ismaili manuscripts, some of them stolen from the famous Hamdani Collection in Surat/Gujarat, India, and the circumstances of their acquisition by the University Library Tübingen between 1970 and 1972. When the manuscripts were acquired, the true origins and disposition of these manuscripts were still completely shrouded in darkness. More than fifty years after these events, I would like to put some pieces of the mosaic together and follow the history of the displaced manuscripts from their place of origin in Surat via Beirut to their final destination, Tübingen. My sources are:
Archival material from Tübingen University Archive, dispersed documents, oral and written accounts of contemporary witnesses, further informants—and last not least, the manuscripts themselves.
In: Hakan Özkan, Nefeli Papoutsakis (eds.) Doing Justice for a wronged literature. Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th - 18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer. Leiden (Brill) 2022, 2022
This volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Isla... more This volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) in 2008 at the University of Leipzig. Original research and new approaches illustrate its theme of Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies. The studies span Muslim culture, civilizations, and intellectual thought in the medieval and modern periods. The contributions demonstrate the benefits of following methodological and interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon literary criticism, sociology and anthropology in the field of Qur'anic studies, religion, philosophy and mysticism; state and society; literature and rhetoric; philology and linguistics; mathematics and astronomy; art and epigraphy; and Islamic sciences and economic history. The volume also highlights the commonalities and overlaps that exist between these different branches and fosters cooperative study across a wide cultural, historical, and sociological milieu. Rather than follo...
... XX MEMOIRS OF A MISSION Shirazi by Farhad Daftary during my visit to The Institute of Ismaili... more ... XX MEMOIRS OF A MISSION Shirazi by Farhad Daftary during my visit to The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London in July 2ooo, for ... This palace with its extensive gardens was surrounded by a new town named Kard Fana Khusraw where craftsmen such as wool-weavers and ...
Machine generated contents note: Part One - Broad Theoretical Directions and Their Applications -... more Machine generated contents note: Part One - Broad Theoretical Directions and Their Applications -- Claudia Ott (Erlangen) -- Miindlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit (orality and literacy) -- am Beispiel arabischer Epik-- Roxane Haag-Higuchi (Bamberg) -- Vom H6ren zum Lesen, von der Szene zum Kapitel: -- Aspekte von Miindlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in einem -- friihen persischen Roman (Mortaiz MoSfeq Kzemi: Tehrdn-e mahuf)-- Birgit Embalo (Beirut) -- Intertextuelle Beziige zeitgen6ssischer arabischer Poesie -- zur arabischen Dichtungstradition-- Andreas Pflitsch (Beirut) -- Konstruierte Wirklichkeiten: -- Die zeitgen6ssische arabische Literatur, -- der Radikale Konstruktivismus und die Erzahlungen aus 1001 Nacht-- Arnim Heinemann (Halle/G6ttingen) -- Sea-Horses on the Banks of the Ganges: -- Lyric-Omniscient Authority and Metaphorical Interaction -- in M odem Arabic Poetic Texts-- Hilary Kilpatrick (Lausanne) -- Eastern Mediterranean Literatures: -- Perspectives for Comparative Study
... 381/991-2; NR, S. 276ff.; TF, S. 184ff.; ad-Darfa, S. 80 Nr. 402; Ki tab Ikmal ad-din wa-itma... more ... 381/991-2; NR, S. 276ff.; TF, S. 184ff.; ad-Darfa, S. 80 Nr. 402; Ki tab Ikmal ad-din wa-itmam an-nirma ft itbat ar-rag'a) - Muh. ... Ibn Abl Zainab an Nu'manl, das wahrscheinlich wenige Jahrzehnte vor dem Kitab Ikmal ad-din wa-itmam an-nirma ft itbat ar-ragca des Ibn Baboye ...
... hat. I. Fatima in der sunnitischen Tradition Fätima in historiographischen und biographischen... more ... hat. I. Fatima in der sunnitischen Tradition Fätima in historiographischen und biographischen Werken ... 23) Die hier getroffene Auswahl von ahbär soll genügen um zu zeigen, daß Fatima für die Überlieferer der Nachrichten (bzw. ...
Between Morocco and Indonesia and beyond. Essays in honour of Irene Schneider. Edited by Fritz Schulze. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag 2024 (Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History.6.), pp. 235-250 (PRE-PRINT Version) , 2024
In this essay, the Kitāb al-Ḥawāšī ʿalā Daʿāʾim [al-Islām], a Hadith commentary by the Ismaili ... more In this essay, the Kitāb al-Ḥawāšī ʿalā Daʿāʾim [al-Islām], a Hadith commentary by the Ismaili legal scholar Ibn Ǧalāl b. Ḥasan al-Amīnǧī (st. 1010/1602) from Ahmadabad, is presented and contextualized in terms of content, form and function, as well in terms of its transregional relationship to the Fatimid Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (d. 363/974) and the Ṭayyibīs in Yemen, who have been the transmitters of this foundational work of Ismaili law as well as of other works of the Qāḍī to the Bohra community in Gujarat.
The last part of the essay is dedicated to the rather obscure history of the manuscript (University Library Tübingen, Ma VI-321).
Abstract
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the speci... more Abstract
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the special, mostly precarious situation of Ismaili manuscripts. It sheds light on the history of a group of 42 Ismaili manuscripts, some of them stolen from the famous Hamdani Collection in Surat/Gujarat, India, and the circumstances of their acquisition by the University Library Tübingen between 1970 and 1972. When the manuscripts were acquired, the true origins and disposition of these manuscripts were still completely shrouded in darkness. More than fifty years after these events, I would like to put some pieces of the mosaic together and follow the history of the displaced manuscripts from their place of origin in Surat via Beirut to their final destination, Tübingen. My sources are:
Archival material from Tübingen University Archive, dispersed documents, oral and written accounts of contemporary witnesses, further informants—and last not least, the manuscripts themselves.
In: Hakan Özkan, Nefeli Papoutsakis (eds.) Doing Justice for a wronged literature. Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th - 18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer. Leiden (Brill) 2022, 2022
This volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Isla... more This volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) in 2008 at the University of Leipzig. Original research and new approaches illustrate its theme of Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies. The studies span Muslim culture, civilizations, and intellectual thought in the medieval and modern periods. The contributions demonstrate the benefits of following methodological and interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon literary criticism, sociology and anthropology in the field of Qur'anic studies, religion, philosophy and mysticism; state and society; literature and rhetoric; philology and linguistics; mathematics and astronomy; art and epigraphy; and Islamic sciences and economic history. The volume also highlights the commonalities and overlaps that exist between these different branches and fosters cooperative study across a wide cultural, historical, and sociological milieu. Rather than follo...
... XX MEMOIRS OF A MISSION Shirazi by Farhad Daftary during my visit to The Institute of Ismaili... more ... XX MEMOIRS OF A MISSION Shirazi by Farhad Daftary during my visit to The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London in July 2ooo, for ... This palace with its extensive gardens was surrounded by a new town named Kard Fana Khusraw where craftsmen such as wool-weavers and ...
Machine generated contents note: Part One - Broad Theoretical Directions and Their Applications -... more Machine generated contents note: Part One - Broad Theoretical Directions and Their Applications -- Claudia Ott (Erlangen) -- Miindlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit (orality and literacy) -- am Beispiel arabischer Epik-- Roxane Haag-Higuchi (Bamberg) -- Vom H6ren zum Lesen, von der Szene zum Kapitel: -- Aspekte von Miindlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in einem -- friihen persischen Roman (Mortaiz MoSfeq Kzemi: Tehrdn-e mahuf)-- Birgit Embalo (Beirut) -- Intertextuelle Beziige zeitgen6ssischer arabischer Poesie -- zur arabischen Dichtungstradition-- Andreas Pflitsch (Beirut) -- Konstruierte Wirklichkeiten: -- Die zeitgen6ssische arabische Literatur, -- der Radikale Konstruktivismus und die Erzahlungen aus 1001 Nacht-- Arnim Heinemann (Halle/G6ttingen) -- Sea-Horses on the Banks of the Ganges: -- Lyric-Omniscient Authority and Metaphorical Interaction -- in M odem Arabic Poetic Texts-- Hilary Kilpatrick (Lausanne) -- Eastern Mediterranean Literatures: -- Perspectives for Comparative Study
... 381/991-2; NR, S. 276ff.; TF, S. 184ff.; ad-Darfa, S. 80 Nr. 402; Ki tab Ikmal ad-din wa-itma... more ... 381/991-2; NR, S. 276ff.; TF, S. 184ff.; ad-Darfa, S. 80 Nr. 402; Ki tab Ikmal ad-din wa-itmam an-nirma ft itbat ar-rag'a) - Muh. ... Ibn Abl Zainab an Nu'manl, das wahrscheinlich wenige Jahrzehnte vor dem Kitab Ikmal ad-din wa-itmam an-nirma ft itbat ar-ragca des Ibn Baboye ...
... hat. I. Fatima in der sunnitischen Tradition Fätima in historiographischen und biographischen... more ... hat. I. Fatima in der sunnitischen Tradition Fätima in historiographischen und biographischen Werken ... 23) Die hier getroffene Auswahl von ahbär soll genügen um zu zeigen, daß Fatima für die Überlieferer der Nachrichten (bzw. ...
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The last part of the essay is dedicated to the rather obscure history of the manuscript (University Library Tübingen, Ma VI-321).
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the special, mostly precarious situation of Ismaili manuscripts. It sheds light on the history of a group of 42 Ismaili manuscripts, some of them stolen from the famous Hamdani Collection in Surat/Gujarat, India, and the circumstances of their acquisition by the University Library Tübingen between 1970 and 1972. When the manuscripts were acquired, the true origins and disposition of these manuscripts were still completely shrouded in darkness. More than fifty years after these events, I would like to put some pieces of the mosaic together and follow the history of the displaced manuscripts from their place of origin in Surat via Beirut to their final destination, Tübingen. My sources are:
Archival material from Tübingen University Archive, dispersed documents, oral and written accounts of contemporary witnesses, further informants—and last not least, the manuscripts themselves.
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The last part of the essay is dedicated to the rather obscure history of the manuscript (University Library Tübingen, Ma VI-321).
The article is written in the framework of provenance research and focuses on the special, mostly precarious situation of Ismaili manuscripts. It sheds light on the history of a group of 42 Ismaili manuscripts, some of them stolen from the famous Hamdani Collection in Surat/Gujarat, India, and the circumstances of their acquisition by the University Library Tübingen between 1970 and 1972. When the manuscripts were acquired, the true origins and disposition of these manuscripts were still completely shrouded in darkness. More than fifty years after these events, I would like to put some pieces of the mosaic together and follow the history of the displaced manuscripts from their place of origin in Surat via Beirut to their final destination, Tübingen. My sources are:
Archival material from Tübingen University Archive, dispersed documents, oral and written accounts of contemporary witnesses, further informants—and last not least, the manuscripts themselves.
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