Texts as Living Objects - (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Texts as Living Objects brings together nine contributions on dhayls (supplements) and textual transmission in the Islamic world. Integrating case studies of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew, and spanning a wide geographical and chronological scope, the volume proposes a renewed definition and understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena.
Rather than examining supplementation in isolation, the volume also considers other forms of textual modification, such as commentary and translation, with which the production of supplements often overlapped. This approach underscores the dynamic yet persistent nature of authorship and knowledge production in the Islamic world and sheds light on the remarkable stability and cohesiveness of a plurisecular written production and its cultural milieu.

Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.

About the Author

Sacha Alsancakli, Ph.D. from Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris (2018), is currently an assistant professor at the Department of West-Asian History and Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. He specializes in Turco-Iranian cultural history, with a particular focus on the Kurds.

Philip Bockholt Professor of History of the Turco Persian World at the University of Münsterand head of the Research Group TRANSLAPT, earned his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. His research focuses on historiography and translation processes of the eastern Islamic world.

Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.