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Accepted Paper:
The flower of Arabic philology and its Persian fruit: Siraj al-din Ali Khan Arzu's (d.1756) appropriation in his 'Musmir' of Jalal al-din al-Suyuti's (d.1505) 'Al-Muzhir'.
Prashant Keshavmurthy
(McGill University )
Islam Dayeh
(Free University Berlin)
Paper short abstract:
We aim to explore the nature of and motivations for Siraj al-din Ali Khan Arzu's (d.1756) appropriations in his treatise on the Persian language of Al-Suyuti's (d.1505) treatise on Arabic.
Paper long abstract:
In mid 18th century Mughal North India, Siraj al-din Ali Khan Arzu wrote a treatise he called 'Musmir' (The Fruition) on the structure and history of the Persian language, declaring he had modeled it on the similarly structured treatise on the Arabic language by the early 16th century scholar of Mamluk Egypt, Jalal al-din al-Suyuti entitled 'Al-Muzhir' (The Flowering). We aim to study and evaluate the nature of and motivations for Arzu's appropriation.
Panel
P21
The republic of letters: the Islamicate world of writing
Session 1