{"product_id":"the-notebook-of-kamal-al-din-the-weaver-9783110688870","title":"The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver","description":"\u003cp\u003e At the end of the 10\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e \/ 16\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century in Aleppo, a weaver, cloth merchant, and poet named Kamāl al-Dīn 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, Kamāl al-Dīn upends assumptions about literary agency, faith, and class in the Ottoman Arab provinces and thus gives us insights rarely seen in other contemporary works. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boris Liebrenz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262544392443,"sku":"9783110688870","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b1c1250a-3e03-497b-b75c-d2cd05577c90.jpg?v=1775608264","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-notebook-of-kamal-al-din-the-weaver-9783110688870","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}