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The arts and crafts of literacy: Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan Africa
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3110541408 (hardcover)
9783110541403 (hardcover)
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The arts and crafts of literacy : Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Andrea Brigaglia and Mauro Nobili
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Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2017
Physical desc.
x, 367 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.
Series
Studies in manuscript cultures
12
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'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.
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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.
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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
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