L’adab, toujours recommencé

Francesca Bellino, Ph.D. (Firenze, 2005) is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her field of research concerns pre-modern Arabic literature and she has worked in particular on popular literature, encyclopedism, and adab literature. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne Université (Paris). She works on religious and cultural history of Early Modern and Modern Egypt. Her most recent edited book is: Adab and Modernity. A “Civilising Process” ? (Sixteenth-Twenty-first Century), Leiden, Brill, 2019. Luca Patrizi is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. He has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Geneva, Sorbonne-Paris, Bonn and Exeter. His interests in Islamic studies focus on theological and ethical issues and on the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.

Contents

Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé

“Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses

 Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen



2 From Education to Etiquette

An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab

 Luca Patrizi



Part 1: Backgrounds and Foundations

3 Paideia et adab

Quelques remarques préliminaires

 Jakub Sypiański



4 De l’adab au musar

La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen Âge

 Francesca Gorgoni



Part 2: The “Origins” of Adab

Introduction to Part 2

 Francesca Bellino



Section 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons

5 Wine, Law and Irony

al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)

 Ignacio Sánchez



6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab

Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār

 Francesca Bellino



7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166)

Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’adab

 Francesco Chiabotti



Section 2: Adab, Power and Ethics

8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander

 Faustina Doufikar-Aerts



9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought

 Neguin Yavari



10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions

Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval

 Monica Balda-Tillier



Part 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the Centuries

Introduction to Part 3

 Francesca Bellino



Section 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West

11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna

 István T. Kristó-Nagy



12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna

 Thibaut d’Hubert



Section 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt

13 Adab as Metamorphosis

Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī

 Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz



14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel?

Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”

 Stefan Reichmuth



Section 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies

15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree

Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods

 Hilary Kilpatrick



16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne

Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle

 Alessandro Mengozzi



Part 4: Metamorphoses of Origins

Introduction to Part 4

 Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen



Section 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism

17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval

Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’adab

 Jean-Charles Coulon



18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation

The Irano-Turkic Case

 Marc Toutant



19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri

 Étienne Naveau



Section 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins?

20 Adab into Littérature

Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France

 Jonathan Haddad



21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean

 Elisabetta Benigni



22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature

From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)

 Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen



Index of Names and Places

Index of Titles

Index of Keywords and Notions