The Arts and Crafts of Literacy : Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical o...

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Main Author: Brigaglia, Andrea.
Other Authors: Nobili, Mauro.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures -- Section 1: Writing Supports -- New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts -- Fī Lawḥin Maḥfūẓ: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of the Quranic Tablet -- Section 2: Around the Texts -- Islamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts -- A Preliminary Appraisal of Marginalia in West African Manuscripts from the Mamma Haïdara Memorial Library Collection (Timbuktu) -- Section 3: Writing Practices and Authorship around the Continents -- Writing in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies -- Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali -- Arabic and Swahili Documents from the Pre-Colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885-1908): Who were the Scribes? -- Section 4: Notes -- Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a Handbook in an Indigenous Fulfulde Script -- Elements of a 'Timbuktu Manual of Style' -- Seven Gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru Cemetery in Cape Town: A Descriptive Note -- Kaʼana Umar's 'CCI Quran': The Making of a Bornuan Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century -- Index of Place Names -- List of Contributors. 
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