Jeannie Miller is Associate Professor of classical Arabic literature in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Toronto. Her first book, The Quibbler: Al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93\u2019s Equivocations<\/em>, reads the signature style and voice of the canonical Arabic author al-Jahiz (d. 868\u20139 CE) through the theoretical framework of his ideas about knowledge that is not absolute, but rather probable, partial, or otherwise incomplete. She is now working on an edition of a portion of al-Jahiz\u2019s Book of Animals <\/em>(Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24\u0101yaw\u0101n<\/em>) based on new manuscript evidence, and a reception history of al-Jahiz\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I hold a SSHRC grant, \u201cTransmission History of al-Jahiz\u2019s Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24ayaw\u0101n<\/em>.\u201d This team has been examining manuscripts of al-Jahiz\u2019s large-scale works, Book of Animals <\/em>and Clarity and Clarification<\/em>, to see what the codicology and paratexts can tell us about the reception history of these texts. As we began to read the four separate unpublished marginal commentaries on al-Jahiz, it became clear that commentary is a very important part of the story, illuminating not only al-Jahiz\u2019s reception history, but also larger questions about ongoing practices of cultivating and teaching the Arabic literary heritage into the early modern period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCommentary and Text Organization in al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93\u2019s Book of Animals<\/em>\u201d in Practices of Commentary<\/em>, ed. Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock, a special issue of Zeitspr\u00fcnge <\/em>24 (April, 2020), 101\u2013132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Quibbler: al-Jahiz\u2019s Equivocations in Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24ayaw\u0101n and Beyond<\/em> (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBay\u0101n<\/em>, Gesture, and Genre: Self-Positioning in al-Jurj\u0101n\u012b\u2019s Introductions,\u201d Journal of Abbasid Studies <\/em>5 (2018) 58-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-Jahiz\u201d in Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: a Festschrift for Everett K. Rowson<\/em>, ed. Shawkat Toorawa and Joseph Lowry (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 94-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat It Means to Be a Son: Adam, Language, and Theodicy in a Ninth-Century Dispute\u201d Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies <\/em>16 (2016), 60-79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Toronto Jeannie Miller is Associate Professor of classical Arabic literature in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Toronto. Her first book, The Quibbler: Al-J\u0101\u1e25i\u1e93\u2019s Equivocations, reads the signature style and voice of the canonical Arabic author al-Jahiz (d. 868\u20139 CE) through the theoretical framework of his ideas about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"category-practices-of-commentary","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Research related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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