Stefanie Brinkmann: „From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen"

Stefanie Brinkmann: „From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen. A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30”, in: Ansari, Hassan and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.): Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril, Piscataway, NJ (Gorgias Press) 2022.

The edited volume Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril contributes to the history of books and libraries in Yemen, and their role in the intellectual culture of Zaydī Yemen. The contributions address past and present manuscript holdings in Yemen, but also in Europe and beyond. The chapter „From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen. A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30” discusses the life story of a manuscript with al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ, which was produced in Timurid Iran (Shiraz) and reached Yemen latest by the 16th century where it remained within the wider family of the Zaydī Imām al-Mutawakkil ʿalā llāh Sharaf al-Dīn (877-965/1473-1558) in Kawkabān. Through the analysis of ownership and inheritance notes the family network from Imām al-Mutawakkil ʿalā llāh Sharaf al-Dīn as first owner in Kawkabān to the last owner in the 19th century could be reconstructed. Furthermore, the examination of the marginal commentaries and the ownership notes illustrates the use of this manuscript within the Zaydī intellectual culture and the growing Sunnitisation.

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