Krimsti, Feras and John-Paul Ghobrial (eds.)

The Past and its Possibilities in Nahḍa Scholarship

Philological Encounters

Brill Online, Vol. 6, Issue 3-4, 2021

Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Jirmānūs Farḥāt, on 20 May 1934 in Aleppo (before the unveiling of the statute). Photograph published in al-Shahbāʾ 9, no. 1, 2, 3 (1934), after p. 24. Digital image courtesy of La Bibliothèque Spirtuelle d’Alep.

The Past and its Possibilities in Nahḍa Scholarship, the new special issue of the journal Philological Encounters, edited by Feras Krimsti and John-Paul Ghobrial, consists of the following articles:

The Past and its Possibilities in Nahḍa Scholarship, by Feras Krimsti and John-Paul Ghobrial

Asad Rustum and the Egyptian Occupation of Syria (1831–1841): Between Narratives of Modernity and Documentary Exactitude, by Peter Hill

An Incomplete Journey Away from the Past: The Life and Ideas of Antonius Ameuney (1821–1881), by Anthony Edwards

Louis Cheikho and the Christianization of Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Ascetic Poetry, by Nora K. Schmid

The Nahḍa, Iraqi Style: The Original Contribution of Father Anastās Mārī al-Kirmilī, by Hilary Kilpatrick

Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa, by Salam Rassi

A Family of Books: The Damascene Shaṭṭīs and Textual Transmission, by Torsten Wollina

The Engagement of Nineteenth-Century Scholars with Jirmānūs Farḥāt’s Baḥth al-Maṭālib: An Early Modern Textbook for Ottoman Schools, by Rossella De Luca

The journal Philological Encounters (PHEN) is dedicated to a historical and philosophical critique of philology and promotes critical and comparative perspectives with the aim of integrating textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.

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