• 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

    Author(s):
    Salam Rassi (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Islamicate Studies
    Subject(s):
    Printing
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/ye1k-nx40
    Abstract:
    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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    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Journal:
    Philological Encounters
    Volume:
    6
    Page Range:
    402 - 437
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 months ago
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    All Rights Reserved
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