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Texts as Living Objects brings together nine contributions on dhayls (supplements) and textual transmission in the Islamic world. Integrating case studies of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew, and spanning a wide geographical and chronological scope, the volume proposes a renewed definition and understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena.
Rather than examining supplementation in isolation, the volume also considers other forms of textual modification, such as commentary and translation, with which the production of supplements often overlapped. This approach underscores the dynamic yet persistent nature of authorship and knowledge production in the Islamic world and sheds light on the remarkable stability and cohesiveness of a plurisecular written production and its cultural milieu.
Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.
Rather than examining supplementation in isolation, the volume also considers other forms of textual modification, such as commentary and translation, with which the production of supplements often overlapped. This approach underscores the dynamic yet persistent nature of authorship and knowledge production in the Islamic world and sheds light on the remarkable stability and cohesiveness of a plurisecular written production and its cultural milieu.
Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.
Price: $140.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004763807
Format: Hardcover
Sacha Alsancakli,Ph.D. from Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris (2018), is currently an assistant professor at the Department of West-Asian History and Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. He specializes in Turco-Iranian cultural history, with a particular focus on the Kurds.
Philip Bockholt is Professor of the History of the Turco-Persian World at the University of Münster, where he also heads the research group TRANSLAPT. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. His research explores historiography and translation processes in the eastern Islamic world.
Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.
Philip Bockholt is Professor of the History of the Turco-Persian World at the University of Münster, where he also heads the research group TRANSLAPT. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. His research explores historiography and translation processes in the eastern Islamic world.
Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.