{"id":6416,"date":"2024-09-25T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/?post_type=comunicacion&#038;p=6416"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:44:35","slug":"the-marginalia-of-el-escorial-arabe-1673-a-dialogue-between-al-andalus-and-sixteenth-century-timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/comunicacion\/the-marginalia-of-el-escorial-arabe-1673-a-dialogue-between-al-andalus-and-sixteenth-century-timbuktu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marginalia of El Escorial Arabe 1673: A Dialogue between al-Andalus and Sixteenth-Century Timbuktu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library at El Escorial holds an incomplete manuscript of al-I\u1e25\u0101\u1e6da f\u012b akhb\u0101r Gharn\u0101\u1e6da, Ibn al-Kha\u1e6d\u012bb\u2019s (d. 1374\/766) magisterial fourteenth-century history of Nasrid Granada \u2013 that has been misattributed. Supposedly copied in Granada in 1490, by the mid-sixteenth century it was the property of A\u1e25mad b. A\u1e25mad b. \u02bfUmar b. Mu\u1e25ammad Aq\u012bt (d. 991\/1583), a prominent member of the scholarly community of Songhay Timbuktu. Al-I\u1e25\u0101\u1e6da\u2019s influence, perhaps in this very manuscript, on the Aq\u012bt family \u2013 Nayl al-ibtih\u0101j, the biographical dictionary written by A\u1e25mad b. A\u1e25mad\u2019s grandson A\u1e25mad B\u0101b\u0101, leans heavily on it as a source. Despite its prestigious colophon, it was almost certainly in Timbuktu that it was copied, and, more importantly, prodigiously annotated. This paper considers El Escorial Arabe 1673 as a physical embodiment of how Andalus\u012b thought was understood and negotiated south of the Sahara. The manuscript\u2019s biography traces the connections between the regions of the Western Islamic world, but its some 200 annotations provides unique insight into the scholarly world of Timbuktu. The many annotators provided cross-references; pointed to rhetorical flourishes they enjoyed; highlighted for themselves and their students the most important scholars. In doing they engaged in a complex, time-displaced conversation across time and space with their Mediterranean forebears, negotiating M\u0101likism and legacy of al-Andalus as they considered their own role within the Songhay Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"ciea":[87],"class_list":["post-6416","comunicacion","type-comunicacion","status-publish","hentry","ciea-ciea12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/comunicacion"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6416\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ciea","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciea?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}