Pre-Modern Arabic Documents : A Concise Introduction into Reading and Publishing

Andreas Kaplony

ISBN 10: 3112248139 / ISBN 13: 9783112248133

Edité par De Gruyter Aug 2026, 2026

A propos de cet article

Neuware - Reading Arabic original documents is a serious challenge. At first sight, Arabic original documents seem to be casual and therefore rather illegible. Yet upon closer acquaintance, the opposite shows to be true: Arabic documents are highly formal. Written by professional scribes, they follow rather strict rules (not to speak of fashions) in both text and layout. However, only a few scholars have learned to read them and now take advantage of this formality, and only a very few of these share their knowledge with others. Making this know-how accessible to a wider public is the explicit aim of this handbook: how to deal, in a cautious and self-critical way, with pre-17th-century Arabic documents on papyrus, paper, potsherds, parchment, etc. - how to find them, how to publish them, and how to use them as a source for research in linguistics, literary studies, and writing history. ; Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients erscheinen als Supplement der Zeitschrift Der Islam, gegründet 1910 von Carl Heinrich Becker, einem der Väter der modernen Islamwissenschaft. Ganz im Sinne Beckers ist das Ziel der Studien die Erforschung der vergangenen Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients, ihrer Glaubenssysteme und der zugrundeliegenden sozialen und ökonomischen Verhältnisse, von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis nach Zentralasien, von den ukrainischen Steppen zum Hochland des Jemen.Über die grundlegende philologische Arbeit an der literarischen Überlieferung hinaus nutzen die Studien die archivalischen, sowie materiellen und archäologischen Überlieferungen als Quelle für die gesamte Bandbreite der historisch arbeitenden Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.Beginnend mit Band 28 setzt SME die Reihe Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients / Studies in the History and Culture of the Islamic Orient (STIO) fort.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Pre-Modern Arabic Documents : A Concise Introduction into Reading and Publishing
• Éditeur: De Gruyter Aug 2026
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3112248139
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783112248133
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 230 L x 155 H x 34 P (en millimètres) 230 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 34 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 355 grammes

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Synopsis

Reading Arabic original documents is a serious challenge. At first sight, Arabic original documents seem to be casual and therefore rather illegible. Yet upon closer acquaintance, the opposite shows to be true: Arabic documents are highly formal. Written by professional scribes, they follow rather strict rules (not to speak of fashions) in both text and layout. However, only a few scholars have learned to read them and now take advantage of this formality, and only a very few of these share their knowledge with others. 

Making this know-how accessible to a wider public is the explicit aim of this handbook: how to deal, in a cautious and self-critical way, with pre-17th-century Arabic documents on papyrus, paper, potsherds, parchment, etc. - how to find them, how to publish them, and how to use them as a source for research in linguistics, literary studies, and writing history. 

À propos de l'auteur

Andreas Kaplony, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München