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GLOBALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE POST-ANTIQUE MEDITERRANEAN, 700-1500 This page intentionally left blank Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 Edited by SONJA BRENTJES and JÜRGEN RENN Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany R OU Routledge T L E Taylor & Francis Group D G ELONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 selection and editorial matter, Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Brentjes, Sonja, editor. | Renn, Jürgen, 1956– editor. Title: Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 / edited by Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn. Description: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015035583 | ISBN 9781472456564 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781472481610 (ebook) | ISBN 9781472481627 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Mediterranean Region—Intellectual life. | Culture and globalization—Mediterranean Region—History. | Mediterranean Region—History. Classification: LCC DE94 .G54 2016 | DDC 909/.09822—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035583 ISBN: 9781472456564 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315585147 (ebk) Typeset in Gentium Plus by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of Figures vii List of Abbreviations ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Jürgen Renn and Sonja Brentjes 1 From One Universal Historiography to the Other: The Reorientation of Ancient Historiography in Byzantium and its Reception in Arabic—The Islamic Organization of Written Memory 7 Johannes Niehoff -Panagiotidis 2 Aspects of Craft in the Arabic Book Revolution 31 Beatrice Gruendler 3 Contexts and Content of Thābit ibn Qurra’s (died 288/901) Construction of Knowledge on the Balance 67 Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn 4 Monarchs and Minorities: “Infi del” Soldiers in Mediterranean Courts 101 Hussein Fancy 5 The Synonyma Literature in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 131 Charles Burnett 6 The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen (Sixth/Twelfth Century through Eighth/Fourteenth Century) 141 Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke 7 Iskandar the Prophet: Religious Themes in Islamic Versions of the Alexander Legend 167 Anna A. Akasoy Postface 205 Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn Index 215 This page intentionally left blank List of Figures 2.1 Recreation of historical paper manufacture, Koni Gil Miros, Samarqand (Photograph: Beatrice Gruendler) 32 2.2 Scooping of paper (Photograph: Beatrice Gruendler) 32 2.3 Finished sheet of paper (Photograph: Beatrice Gruendler) 33 2.4 Iṣlāḥ MS, opening chapter on non-synonymous nouns of the morphological types faʿl and fi ʿl, dated 372/982–3 (Source: Ibn al-Sikkīt, Iṣlāḥ al-manṭiq, edited by Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir, and ʿAbd al-Salām Muḥammad Hārūn, Cairo: Dār al-maʿārif, 1368/1949, plate 2) 52 2.5 Papermakers. Graph created by Maxim Romanov, documenting the tenfold increase of the professional designation of stationer (warrāq) between 150 and 400 H. based on the most comprehensive biographical source at our disposal, the “History of Islam and the Classes of the Famous and Illustrious” (Taʾrīkh al-islām wa-ṭabaqāt al-mashāhīr wa-l-aʿlām) by al-Dhahabī (died 748/1348) 66 3.1 Greco-Arabic decorated steelyard with two scales (uncial; Arabic letter numbers); Egypt or Syria; undated, possibly second/eighth to fourth/tenth century. (Courtesy of Benaki Museum, Athens) 78 7.1 Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī, dated 995/1480. (Image © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin [CBL Per. 157.370]) 179 7.2 Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī, mid-sixteenth century. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London, inv. no. MSS 771. (© The Nour Foundation. Courtesy of The Khalili Family Trust) 180 This page intentionally left blank List of Abbreviations ACA Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó ACB Archivo de la Catedral de Barcelona Add. Additamenta AHN Archivo Histórico Nacional a/Arab. Arabic/us BN Biblioteca Nacional BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France Cod. codex CR Cartes Reials CRAI Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles- lettres CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium EI2 Encyclopedia of Islam, new edition, 11 Vol., and supplement. Leiden: Brill, 1960–2004 GAS Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, 15 Vol. to date, Leiden: Brill, 1967–1996; starting with vol. X: Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität, 2000 lat. Latin/us MS manuscript o/Or. oriental/is R register
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