A Mamlūk-Andalusi Holograph Manuscript of the Former Marīnid Chancellor Muḥammad Ibn Ḥizb Allāh al-Wādī Āshī (d. 788 H/1386 CE)
Abstract
The contribution revolves around manuscripts and identity, being part of a wider, innovative and seminal research project that is recovering the manuscript legacy of Naṣrid Granada. It concentrates on a unique manuscript - a holograph of the Marīnid Chancellor Muḥammad Ibn Ḥizb Allāh al-Wādī Āshī (d. 788 H/1386 CE) - that offers a valuable example of how Maghribis in the East represented themselves and were represented by others.
By skilfully combining different types of source material, it opens up new possibilities for assessing the cultural acts of expression that migrants performed according to their context and the persons involved, and the transformations in meaning that writings were subject to in time and space. In these circumstances, the evidence of how these migrants related to one other is of particular interest.