It was not the Mongol invasion that pushed the book west to Syria and Egypt, but it was certainly the reason that made Syria and Egypt the only centers of its diffusion. Ibn Sa'd's authorship of this work is attested in a postscript to the book added by a later writer. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The circuit is to be repeated each generation for the book to remain in circulation, i. During this phase the crystallized book spread outside Baghdad to Syria and Egypt, the two main centers of its later teaching. Encyclopedia of Islam 2 ed. Our first task then is to establish a pool of candidates for these roles, and assign one or more roles in the circuit to each person in that pool. 
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Their author is possibly Ibn Fahm, but other transmitters of the book should not be totally dropped from consideration.
These changes can be consciously induced by the compilers or due to differences between the recensions used in the compilations consulted. In any compilation, a report containing the name of our author i.
Ibn Sa’d’s Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir
It is a common practice in our field, when having general, collegial discussions of topics related to early Islamic periods, to talk in equal terms about historiographies and about biographical dictionaries; the latter books being usually valuable sources of historical information.
Other minor changes involve changing the order of a number of reports in a sequence, or changing the last transmitter i.
Given the nature of my research up to now, I restricted the paper to the mechanics of survival of a benchmark book the KTK. The manuscripts give us only one, but the most renowned. It also formulates specific and distinct goals, determines the types of information needed to reach these goals, specifies the sources that can be mined for raw data, and elaborates methods for extracting the needed information from these data.
What would then make transmitting rather than compiling attractive to these teachers? This is a period of relative obscurity and possible openness of the book. The previous results constitute a strong reminder that thbaaqat two genres, namely historiography and biography, la-kubra not to be confused. Therefore, at any time a number of copies of a book would be circulating. There were also readers who were not involved in transmitting the book but who felt compelled for some reason to read all or parts of it e.
Translated by William MacGuckin de Slane. Jalal al-Din Mirza Qajar. Toorawa, The Genesis of Literature in Islam: During this al-kbura the KTK continued being transmitted with the old dictation-writing procedure but also saw the transformation of manuscripts into commodities bought, sold and inherited; this is how the extant manuscripts reached us.
Although the medieval book, in its manuscript format and its aural mode of transmission, operated in a much smaller and more elitist domain, it nonetheless did have social, economic, and intellectual agency. The group of copies thanaqat are identical, except for minor differences, I call a recension.
In fact, such dedicated transmitters defined and preserved the "canonical" books of tradition. The Book of the Major Classesis a compendium of biographical information about famous Islamic personalities. It seems that traditionalists have always regarded the KTK as a source for biographical information that is best suited for writing other biographical dictionaries.
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We should also add the notion of book evolution or crystallization, since the medieval notion of authorship is more fluid in that it encompasses the actual author and a number of later contributors and editors, who remain for the most part anonymous.
In fact, the proliferation of ijazas i. I have observed that, user of the KTK constitutes a dead-end branch in one of its transmission trees in other words, users are never teachers. Not necessarily, because many students of different ages may have attended the dictation of the book or parts of itbut only two persons decided to teach it and Thsbaqat Fahm is one of them.
We see here that a book can survive as a unit, when transmitted in its entirety; or as packets of reports, when included in other compilations.
It is possible then to say that all members of these three generations of transmitters had an impact thabwqat the form and content of the KTK. The introduction explained what is to be the aim of this field; that is the study of the survival and agency of books produced within the medieval Islamic culture.
London ; New York: Therefore, thabaqta encountering a large number of such reports, I assumed that they were drawn from copies of the same recensions as those of the manuscripts. All our extant manuscripts go back to the end of this period. In Part III the information is analyzed and statements are formulated concerning the goals we fixed for the study.
Log In Sign Up. This exact process transformed the KTK into an authoritative source of the Islamic tradition.
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