ISBN |
3110541408 (hardcover) |
9783110541403 (hardcover) |
Title |
The arts and crafts of literacy : Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Andrea Brigaglia and Mauro Nobili |
Publisher |
Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2017 |
Physical desc. |
x, 367 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Studies in manuscript cultures 12 |
Note |
'The articles in this volume were originally presented at the conference The arts and crafts of literacy: manuscript cultures in Muslim Sub-Saharan Africa, held at the University of Cape Town, 5-6 September 2013'--Page vii. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: African history and Islamic manuscript cultures / Mauro Nobili -- Writing supports. New strategies in using watermarks to date sub-Saharan Islamic manuscripts / Michaelle Biddle -- Fī lawḥin maḥfūẓ: towards a phenomenological analysis of the Quranic tablet / Andrea Brigaglia -- Around the texts. Islamic education and ample space layout in West African Islamic manuscripts / Dmitry Bondarev -- A preliminary appraisal of marginalia in West African manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara memorial library collection (Timbuktu) / Susana Molins Lliteras -- Writing in Africa: the Kilwa chronicle and other sixteenth-century Portuguese testimonies / Adrien Delmas -- Bamana texts in Arabic characters: some leaves from Mali / Tal Tamari -- Arabic and Swahili documents from the pre-colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885-1908): who were the scribes? / Xavier Luffin -- Notes. Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a handbook in an indigenous Fulfulde script / Mohamadou Halirou -- Elements of a 'Timbuktu manual of style' / Mahmoud Mohamed Dédéou and Shamil Jeppie -- Seven gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru cemetery in Cape Town: a descriptive note / Alessandro Gori -- Kaʼana Umar's 'CCI Quran': the making of a Bornuan manuscript in the twenty-first century / Maimadu Barma Mutai and Andrea Brigaglia. |
Subject |
Manuscripts -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses |
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses |
Manuscripts, African -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses |
Islamic civilization -- Manuscripts -- Congresses |
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- Sources -- Manuscripts -- Congresses |
Added name(s) |
Brigaglia, Andrea 1976- editor |
Nobili, Mauro editor |