The Arts and Crafts of Literacy Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written l...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745132206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures / Nobili, Mauro
- Section 1: Writing Supports
- New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts / Biddle, Michaelle
- Fī Lawḥin Maḥfūẓ: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of the Quranic Tablet / Brigaglia, Andrea
- Section 2: Around the Texts
- Islamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts / Bondarev, Dmitry
- A Preliminary Appraisal of Marginalia in West African Manuscripts from the Mamma Haïdara Memorial Library Collection (Timbuktu) / Lliteras, Susana Molins
- Section 3: Writing Practices and Authorship around the Continents
- Writing in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies / Delmas, Adrien
- Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali / Tamari, Tal
- Arabic and Swahili Documents from the Pre-Colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885-1908): Who were the Scribes? / Luffin, Xavier
- Section 4: Notes
- Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a Handbook in an Indigenous Fulfulde Script / Halirou, Mohamadou
- Elements of a 'Timbuktu Manual of Style' / Dédéou, Mahmoud Mohamed / Jeppie, Shamil
- Seven Gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru Cemetery in Cape Town: A Descriptive Note / Gori, Alessandro
- Kaʾana Umar's 'CCI Quran': The Making of a Bornuan Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century / Mutai, Maimadu Barma / Brigaglia, Andrea
- Index of Place Names
- List of Contributors
