Order in the House: Epilogue

Abstract The contributions to this Special Issue of the Journal of Abbasid Studies show that the later third/ninth to the early fifth/eleventh century witnessed the output of a variety of voluminous books, not only in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, but in chronologically parallel cultures as well. Fo...

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Published in:Journal of Abbasid Studies
Main Author: Berkel, Maaike (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Further subjects:B Mamluk intellectual history
B Encyclopaedism
B organization of knowledge
B Abbasid intellectual history
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Summary:Abstract The contributions to this Special Issue of the Journal of Abbasid Studies show that the later third/ninth to the early fifth/eleventh century witnessed the output of a variety of voluminous books, not only in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, but in chronologically parallel cultures as well. For an overall understanding of the writerly culture of the era, further exploration of the organisation of information and the development of tools to locate data is called for. My epilogue offers a step in this direction against the backdrop of fourth/tenth-century caliphal administration and the organisation of archives on the one hand, and a comparison with the later and much more studied Mamluk writerly culture on the other.
ISSN:2214-2371
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22142371-12340062