Bibliotheca Islamica The Notebook of Kamāl Al-Dīn the Weaver: Aleppine Notes from the End of the 16th Century, Book 59, (Hardcover)

<p> At the end of the 10^th / 16^th century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kam&amp;#257;l al-D&amp;#299;n would regularly take his time to fill blank pages with his varied observations. But it was not a linear narrative he produced, nor was it a diary. Rather, he scribbled down accounts on the political and social life of his city and the region; the climate; economic developments; his craft; poetry, much of it his own; anecdotes; reading excerpts; obituaries of dignitaries and friends; history. In doing so, Kam&amp;#257;l al-D&amp;#299;n upends assumptions about literary agency, faith, and class in the Ottoman Arab provinces and thus gives us insights rarely seen in other contemporary works. </p> <p> Only a fragment of what once must have been a sizeable work survives, now preserved in the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha under the shelfmark MS orient. A 114. It represents the earliest known Arabic notebook of an artisan or merchant. </p>

• Bibliotheca Islamica The Notebook of Kamāl Al-Dīn the Weaver: Aleppine Notes from the End of the 16th Century, Book 59, (Hardcover)
• Author: Boris Liebrenz
• ISBN: 9783110688870
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2021-10-04
• Page Count: 240