Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and supplementing the main text. This volume sheds light on such scribal practices in Arabic manuscripts, investigating diverse techniques and approaches across the vast geographical and temporal range of the Arabic manuscript age. What similarities and differences can we observe regarding place, time, and subject? And what can we learn from these annotations in the margins or between the lines? This volume is the first to focus specifically on the rich tradition of marginal commentaries in Arabic manuscripts and seeks to establish the study of commentary and glossing practices as an important source for the history of Arabic literature, Islamic intellectual history, and comparative manuscript studies.Contributors are Berat Açıl, Philip Bockholt, Stefanie Brinkmann, Nadja Danilenko, Verena Klemm, Boris Liebrenz, Nadine Löhr, Darya Ogorodnikova, Deborah Schlein and Florian Sobieroj.
Stefanie Brinkmann, Ph.D., is research fellow at the “Bibliotheca Arabica” project (Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig). She is trained in the fields of Arabic, Islamic, Persian, and Roman Studies, and published on Arabic poetry, hadith, and manuscript studies.
ForewordPrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Mapping the FieldStefanie BrinkmannPart 1: Methodological Approaches and Issues of Classification1 Putting Margins in Context: Some Practical ConsiderationsBoris Liebrenz2 Filling in the Blanks: Annotating Soninke Ajami ManuscriptsDarya Ogorodnikova3 At the High End of Learning: Note-Taking and Commentary Practices of a Nineteenth-Century Ismaili Scholar in IndiaVerena KlemmPart 2: Sciences4 Annotation Systems and Symbols in Arabic Manuscripts on Astral SciencesNadine Löhr5 Citations in the Margins: a Reader’s Education in South Asian ṬibbDeborah SchleinPart 3: History and Geography6 No Comment: Marginalia in Geographic Literature from the Tenth Century OnwardsNadja Danilenko7 Partisan Readers: Fighting over the Interpretation of History in the Margins of MS BnF, Arabe 1825Boris Liebrenz8 Footnotes in Premodern Times? On the Phenomenon of Minhiyyāt in Persian TextsPhilip BockholtPart 4: Religion9 Cārullāh Efendī (d. 1151/1738) on Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240): Correcting Misconception via Manuscript NotesBerat Açıl10 The Unique Copy of Ibn Khafīf’s Collection of Transmitted PrayersCodicology, Marginalia, Paratexts, and Transmitters’ StrategiesFlorian Sobieroj11 Struggling with the Margin – Studying Marginal Commentaries in a Hadith Collection: Al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunnaStefanie BrinkmannConclusion: Common Traits and DifferencesStefanie BrinkmannIndex
