Texts as Living Objects:Reconsidering Dhayls as a Means for the Study of Authorship and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Age, 22.-24. November 2023, Paris

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Beschreibung

The conference “Texts as Living Objects” at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris from November 14th to 16th, organised by Philip Bockholt and Sacha Alsancakli, aimed to examine how texts remained relevant throughout the pre-modern and modern periods in the Islamic world, with a focus on the phenomenon of dhayl (pl. dhuyūl) in Arabic, or ẕayl/ẕeyl in Persian and Turkish. As a prominent feature of Islamic manuscript transmission, the term dhayl refers to the act of continuing the narrative of a given text, typically a historical chronicle, up to the time of the amendment. In addition to the fruitful discussions at the conference venue, the Hôtel de Lauzun, a Parisian city palace from the 17th century, the participants had the opportunity to see a selection of dhayl manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.