著者

苗村 卓哉

出版者

一般社団法人 日本オリエント学会

雑誌

オリエント (ISSN:00305219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, no.1, pp.31-57, 2010-09-30 (Released:2014-03-31)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1 1

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It is believed that the ʿarḍ was a customary "presentation” by young students of memorized texts before shaykhs (scholars). However, notwithstanding its circulation at least throughout the Eastern Arab World in the Late Middle Ages, the ʿarḍ has scarcely been discussed, with the exception of E. M. Sartain’s biographical study of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 1505), which claimed that the ʿarḍ was a kind of entrance examination which qualified the young student for higher education at a madrasa. This article examines the ʿarḍ in the Eastern Arab World during the 15th and 16th centuries, mainly relying on two biographical works attributed to Shams al-Dīn ibn Ṭūlūn (d. 1546), i.e., his autobiography al-Fulk al-Mashḥūn and his biographical dictionary Mutʿat al-Adhhān. It uses two different approaches. Firstly, it gleans examples pertaining to the ʿarḍ from these works and notes general characteristics of the ʿarḍ, focusing on the three factors of the ʿarḍ, i.e., presenters, texts, and shaykhs. Secondly, it analyzes several of the phrases in the “ijāzas of the ʿarḍ”, which the shaykhs issued to presenters. This article concludes that: 1. Most of the presenters were young students about 11 to 16 years old. Nevertheless, the ʿarḍ as such had nothing to do with entrance to the madrasas. Some of presenters had already started learning from scholars at the madrasas before their ʿarḍ. 2. Most of the texts were general works. Yet the selection of the texts was left up to the discretion of each presenter. 3. Presenters especially hoped to be recognized by “eminent” shaykhs. Therefore, jurisprudential differences between the presenters and the shaykhs did not affect the value of the ʿarḍ. 4. The “ijāzas of the ʿarḍ” were not licenses to teach subjects or works but were just certificates of proficiency. Therefore, some historical sources do not even consider them to be ijāzas.