ABSTRACT
Chapters 5 and 6 proposed readings of the Raw,atayn and the Mufarrij as specifically intended by the authors. This final chapter will abandon the medieval context in order to discuss the texts’ reception in the following centuries. The aim of this discussion is twofold: on the one hand it will be shown that these authors’ intentions – especially in Abn Shmma’s case – were indeed understood as such in the following centuries. On the other hand, the reader’s room for manoeuvre will also be referred to as Abn Shmma’s text was also subject to interpretations, which went well beyond his intentions. This inquiry will centre on the reception of the works as complete entities; that is to say, it will not examine the quotation of fragments by later authors.1
