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Al-Ṣafadī, his Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time

Talib, Adam

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Adam Talib



Abstract

Philology was more than a scholarly tool in the system of classical Arabo-Islamic writing; it was a cognitive model. This cognitive model was embodied by scholars and repeatedly performed by them in oral and written expression. It can be understood as a habitus. This article takes seriously pre-modern critiques of a revisionist darling al-Ṣafadī’s masterful commentary al-Ghayth al-musajjam fī sharḥ «Lāmiyyat al-ʿAjam» to consider the cognitive logic of this philological habitus and the ways in which modern scholarly agendas manipulate the chronological plane of Arabic literary history.

Citation

Talib, A. (2019). Al-Ṣafadī, his Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time. Philological Encounters, 4(1-2), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340062

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 10, 2018
Online Publication Date Dec 13, 2019
Publication Date Dec 31, 2019
Deposit Date Aug 10, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Philological encounters.
Print ISSN 2451-9189
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Issue 1-2
Pages 109-134
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340062

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