Abū Manṣūr al-Ṯaʿālibī’s Ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-buldān: A Study of an adīb’s Geography, Stereotypes and Lists
This article focuses on al-Ṯaʿālibī’s (d. 429/1038) works and excerpts of his works dealing with ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-buldān, i.e. specificities of lands and cities. In the first part, I present al-Ṯaʿālibī’s numerous excerpts on ḫaṣāʾiṣ, and discuss the work entitled Ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-buldān, its textual history an...
| Published in: | Arabica |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Arabica
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| Further subjects: | B
géographie arabe
B listes B idiome B Stereotype B stéréotypes B lexicographie B Abū Manṣūr al-Ṯaʿālibī B al-Ǧāḥiẓ B Lexicography B Lists B Ḫaṣāʾiṣ, ʿaǧāʾib B Anthology B idiom B Adab B Ibn al-Wardī B Arabic geography |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on al-Ṯaʿālibī’s (d. 429/1038) works and excerpts of his works dealing with ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-buldān, i.e. specificities of lands and cities. In the first part, I present al-Ṯaʿālibī’s numerous excerpts on ḫaṣāʾiṣ, and discuss the work entitled Ḫaṣāʾiṣ al-buldān, its textual history and attribution to al-Ṯaʿālibī. I then sketch al-Ṯaʿālibī’s travels, firsthand and secondhand geographical knowledge, and sources in order to analyse the contents and form of his ḫaṣāʾiṣ. The textual investigation aims at showing al-Ṯaʿālibī’s usage of common adab features such as intertextuality, lexicographical items and lists to support specific claims of his writing and to reinforce a certain representation of the world based on adab stereotypes and clichés. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Arabica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700585-20231667 |