Variance in Arabic Manuscripts : Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries - Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.5 .
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 State of the art -- 1.2 Programme of work -- 1.3 Manuscript as a medium -- 1.4 Corpus of manuscripts studied -- 2 Main categories of variance -- 2.1 Work titles -- 2.2 Textual Variance -- 2.3 Variance relating to the number and sequence of verses -- 2.4 Variance in relation to page layout -- 2.5 Variance in relation to context -- 2.6 Variance in dependency of the medium -- 3 Means of stabilization -- 3.1 Deletion -- 3.2 Substitution -- 3.3 Addition -- 3.4 Correction of verse divisions -- 3.5 Vocalization -- 3.6 Glosses -- 3.6.1 Content-related explanations -- 3.6.2 Explanations by synonyms -- 3.7 Syntactical explanatory markers -- 3.8 Signs of reference -- 3.9 Collation -- 3.10 Abbreviations of authorities -- 3.11 Place of insertion of manuscript notes relating to control of text variance -- 3.12 Evaluation -- 4 Cultural background -- 4.1 Didactic Poems and the institutions of learning -- 4.1.1 Elementary education -- 4.1.2 The madrasa -- 4.1.2.1 The classroom situation -- 4.1.2.2 Curriculum -- 4.1.2.3 Didactic poems in some scholars' fahrasa -- 4.1.2.4 Didactic poetry in the Core Curriculum of West Africa and the Southern Sahara -- 4.1.2.5 A case study: Didactic poetry in an Algerian Sufi convent -- 4.2 Orality, scripturality and memorization -- 4.2.1 The oral and the written -- 4.2.1.1 Ijazat -- 4.2.2 Memory and memorization -- 4.2.2.1 2.2.1. Development of memory -- 4.2.2.2 Aids to memorization -- 4.2.2.2.1 Translation of texts into Arabic -- 4.2.2.2.2 Versification -- 4.2.2.3 Ways of increasing strength of memory -- 4.2.2.3.1 Prayer -- 4.2.2.3.2 Religious magic as an aid to memorization -- 4.2.2.4 Motivations for memorizing didactic poems -- 4.2.2.4.1 Realization of perfection in belief -- 4.2.2.4.2 Realization of the ideal of perfection, regarding manners. 4.2.2.4.3 Entering paradise: the case of the -Sha?ibiyya -- 4.3 Performative usages of didactic poems -- 4.3.1 Qa?idat al-Burda -- 4.3.1.1 Liturgical usage in Muslim Northwest China -- 4.3.1.2 Therapeutic and theurgical usages -- 4.3.2 al-Qa?ida al-Juljulutiyya of Pseudo-?Ali: magical usages -- 5 Corpus of Didactic Poems: Ibn Zurayq, al-Ūshī, Ibn al-Wardī, al-Laqānī -- 5.1 Ibn Zurayq, al-Qaṣīda al-Andalusiyya -- 5.1.1 Author -- 5.1.2 al-Qaṣīda al-Andalusiyya -- 5.1.2.1 Work title -- 5.1.2.2 Commentaries -- 5.1.2.3 Manuscripts -- 5.1.2.4 Number of verses -- 5.1.2.5 Variance relating to context: traditions concerning ẓarf and the circumstances of composition in the introduction -- 5.1.2.6 Edition of Text according to al-Ṣafadī, Wāfī l-wafayāt -- 5.1.2.7 Description of manuscripts -- 5.1.2.8 Synopsis of verse sequences -- 5.1.2.9 Evaluation -- 5.2 Al-Ūshī, Qaṣīdat Badʾ al-amālī -- 5.2.1 Author -- 5.2.2 Qaṣīdat Badʾ al-amālī -- 5.2.2.1 Commentaries on al-Ūshī -- 5.2.2.2 Manuscripts of the text -- 5.2.2.2.1 Dated manuscripts -- 5.2.2.2.2 Number of verses -- 5.2.2.3 Concordance of work titles -- 5.2.2.4 Edition of al-Ūshī -- 5.2.2.5 Description of manuscripts -- 5.2.2.5.1 Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB) - Preussischer Kulturbesitz (PK) -- 5.2.2.5.2 Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen -- 5.2.2.5.3 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München -- 5.2.2.5.4 Princeton University Library -- 5.2.2.5.5 Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi -- 5.2.2.5.6 Commentaries in some manuscripts of Princeton University Library -- 5.2.2.6 Synopsis of verse sequences -- 5.2.2.7 Apocryphal verses -- 5.3 Ibn al-Wardī, al-Lāmiyya al-Wardiyya -- 5.3.1 Author -- 5.3.2 Al-Lāmiyya -- 5.3.2.1 Commentaries -- 5.3.2.2 Manuscripts -- 5.3.2.3 Concordance of work titles -- 5.3.2.4 Edition -- 5.3.2.5 Description of manuscripts. 5.3.2.5.1 Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz -- 5.3.2.5.2 BSB München -- 5.3.2.5.3 Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi -- 5.3.2.6 Synopsis of verse sequences -- 5.3.2.7 Apocryphal verses -- 5.4 Al-Laqānī, Jawharat al-tawḥīd -- 5.4.1 Author -- 5.4.2 Jawharat al-tawḥīd -- 5.4.2.1 Commentaries on Jawharat al-tawḥīd -- 5.4.2.1.1 Commentary of Aḥmad al-Jawharī -- 5.4.2.2 Manuscripts -- 5.4.2.3 Concordance of work titles -- 5.4.2.4 Edition of text -- 5.4.2.5 Description of manuscripts -- 5.4.2.5.1 Mss. in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz -- 5.4.2.5.2 Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi -- 5.4.2.6 Synopsis of verse sequences -- 5.4.2.7 Apocryphal verses -- 5.5 Al-Sanūsī, al-ʿAqīda al-ṣughrā -- 5.5.1 Author -- 5.5.2 Al-ʿAqīda al-ṣughrā -- 5.5.2.1 Contents, edition and translations -- 5.5.2.2 Commentaries and other derivative works -- 5.5.2.3 The manuscripts -- 5.5.2.3.1 Condition of the manuscripts -- 5.5.2.3.2 Dated manuscripts -- 5.5.2.4 Variance in the manuscripts -- 5.5.2.4.1 Work titles -- 5.5.2.4.2 Page layout -- 5.5.2.5 Edition of the -Sanūsiyya -- 5.5.2.6 Description of manuscripts -- 5.5.2.6.1 Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz -- 5.5.2.6.2 Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi -- 5.5.2.7 Evaluation of textual variants -- 6 Appendix I: Survey of didactic poems -- 6.1 Recitation of the Koran -- 6.1.1 -Shāṭibī (Ḥirz al-amānī, Nāẓimat al-zahr, etc.) -- 6.1.2Ibn al-Jazarī -- 6.1.2.1 Commentaries -- 6.2 Orthography of the Koran: -Shāṭibī (ʿAqīlat atrāb alqaṣā ʾid) -- 6.3 Dogma of Sunnī Islam: -Zawāwī, -Ramlī -- 6.4 Mysticism: -Bakrī, -Dīrīnī -- 6.5 Prayer: -Sammān, -Aqfahsī -- 6.6 Jurisprudence: Ibn al-Wardī, -ʿImrīṭī, Ibn al-Mutaqqina, Ibn al-Hāʾim, -Zaqqāq, -Rifāʿī, Ibn ʿĀshir -- 6.7 Logic: -Akhḍarī -- 6.8 Disputation: -Kawākibī -- 6.9 Algebra: Ibn al-Hāʾim -- 6.10 Medicine: Ibn Sīnā. 6.11 Grammar: -Ḥarīrī, Ibn Mālik, -ʿImrīṭī -- 6.12 Rhetoric: -Akhḍarī, -Munayyir -- 6.13 Historiography: -Bāʿūnī -- 7 Appendix II: Synopses of textual variants -- 7.1 Ibn Zurayq, al-Qaṣīda al-Andalusiyya -- 7.2 -Ūshī, Qaṣīdat Badʾ al-amālī -- 7.3 Ibn al-Wardī, al-Lāmiyya al-Wardiyya -- 7.4 -Laqānī, Jawharat al-tawḥīd -- 7.5 -Sanūsī, al-ʿAqīda al-ṣughrā -- References -- Indices.
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Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism--Criticism, Textual.