6 octobre 2019
Torsten Wollina, « Introducing: Khadija al-Qurashiyya al-Bakriyya », Damascus Anecdotes, ID : 10670/1.47gz5l
Returning to a recurrent segment but with a little twist this post's subject is Khadija bt. Jamal al-Din Abd Allah al-Qurashiyya al-Bakriyya—and we could add here—al-Misriyya. She did not receive her own biography in Ibn Tulun's biographical dictionary al-Dhakhaʾir but nonetheless has her voice heard in that same work. A biographical dictionary is always more than the sum of its parts, or the sum of the people receiving their own biography. The genre acknowledges the complexity of socia...