By Adrian Gully
ISBN-10: 0748633731
ISBN-13: 9780748633739
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This ebook provides a special research of letter writing within the center Islamic interval. This was once a tremendous element of highbrow existence one of the ruling periods in that interval and it could possibly let us know very much in regards to the cultural historical past of the time. the writer units epistolography inside of a much broader context, drawing on similarities among Islamic modes of letter writing and people of Western cultures. He ties within the the most important proposal of the ability of the pen in Islamic society with epistemological tendencies and relationships of dependency one of the paperwork.
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1, pp. 27, 99, 153. See also al-QalqašandÈ, Íub˙, vol. 2, pp. 317ff. 95 Ibn al-AtÈr, al-Matal al-SÅ’ir, vol. 2, p. 155. , vol. 1, p. 27. 97 See Makdisi, The Rise of Humanism, p. 159. 98. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, p. 206. See also Murphy, ‘Rhetoric in the Fifteenth Century’, p. 236. 99. Murphy, ‘Anonymous of Bologna’, pp. 8–10. 100. Perelman, ‘The Medieval Art of Letter Writing’, p. 110. 101. , p. 110. For more on the salutation in an Islamic context see Chapter 7 below especially. 102.
When writing a letter of apology (Ar. 102 Al-QalqašandÈ puts it in more general terms, saying that when a secretary writes to the Ruler about himself he must use modest expressions commensurate with his role of service, and not address him with forms of eloquence that are not permitted from subject to master, for this would be tantamount to engaging the Ruler in affected eloquence (Ar. tafÅßu˙). 103 There were only exceptional circumstances when the terms of address could be turned upside down, so to speak.
P. 1242. 64. Some of the apparent similarities between these two works have been alluded to in Bonebakker’s early, rather sketchy, analysis of Ibn Halaf’s work. See Bonebakker, ‘A Fatimid Manual for Secretaries’, pp. 307–10. 65. For more on this see Gully, ‘Epistles for Grammarians’, p. 149. 66. , p. 306. 67. There is very good reason to argue that letter collections of this type contain some valuable historical information not found in important history works on a particular period. See for example, Mu߆afÅ al-Šaka‘a, BadÈ‘ al-ZamÅn al-HamadÅnÈ, p.
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