Title:
The ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih - The Birth of a Classic.
Year of publication:
2021
Available Date:
2022-01-11T13:16:19Z
Abstract:
This study discusses the form and function of the chapter list that we find in the preface of the adab compilation al-ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbdrabbih (246-328/860-940), and that sometimes appears in manuscripts with the layout of a table of contents. It suggests that this evidence shows that the list represents a transitional stage in the history of the table of contents in the Arabic book, the transition being that from a tool for exposition of the content towards a tool for navigation of that content, and that it reflects a change in reading practices.
Part of Identifier:
ISBN (print): 978-90-04-45908-3
e-ISBN (online): 978-90-04-45909-0
Keywords:
adab
compilation
adab compilations
list
reading practices
table of contents
taṣnīf
DDC-Classification:
892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic
Publication Type:
Buchkapitel
URL of the Original Publication:
DOI of the Original Publication:
Book Title:
Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies
Editor:
Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Bilal Orfali
Department/institution:
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Arabistik
