Title in Arabic or Hebrew
- ابن دانيال
Introduction
- This sub-sub-sub-series contains all materials (published and unpublished) related to the most important author of plays of shadow theater, the Egyptian doctor Šams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl (1248–1310). The three «bābāt» (plays) of his «Ṭayf al-Ḫayāl», respectively entitled «ayf al-», are the only written examples of shadow play from the past. In this sub-sub-sub-series are collected all the materials that make reference to its principal articles on the subject, such as “Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl und sein zweites arabisches Schattenspiel” (1950), and especially to the edition, translation (English and German) of the work of Ibn Dāniyāl. In fact Kahle prepared the critical edition of the Arabic text (perhaps also the translation) of Ibn Dāniyāl’s «Ṭayf al-Ḫayāl», which, however, never came to light. After Kahle’s death, Derek Hopwood published «Three Shadow Plays by Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl», edited by the late Paul Kahle with a critical apparatus by Derek Hopwood (Cambridge, 1992), which reproduces the Arabic text, with critical apparatus, and a general introduction to the work. The Archive preserves the critical apparatus as prepared by D. Hopwood.