Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 204)

Texts as Living Objects brings together nine contributions on dhayls (supplements) and textual transmission in the Islamic world. Integrating case studies of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew, and spanning a wide geographical and chronological scope, the volume proposes a renewed definition and understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena.
Rather than examining supplementation in isolation, the volume also considers other forms of textual modification, such as commentary and translation, with which the production of supplements often overlapped. This approach underscores the dynamic yet persistent nature of authorship and knowledge production in the Islamic world and sheds light on the remarkable stability and cohesiveness of a plurisecular written production and its cultural milieu.

Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.

Sacha Alsancakliis Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Letters and the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris in 2018. His research focuses on Turco-Iranian cultural history, particularly the Kurds.

Philip Bockholt is Junior Professor of the History of the Turco-Persian World at the University of Münster, where he heads the research group TRANSLAPT. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. His research focuses on historiography and translation processes in the early modern Islamic world.

Contributors
Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.