The arts and crafts of literacy : Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:	Arts and Crafts of Literacy (Conference) (2013 : Cape Town, South Africa)
Edition:	1 [edition].
Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2017].
Description:	x, 367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in manuscript cultures, 2365-9696 ; volume 12 Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 12.
Subject:	History -- Sources -- Manuscripts. Islamic civilization -- Manuscripts. Manuscripts. Manuscripts, Arabic. Manuscripts -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses. Islamic civilization -- Manuscripts -- Congresses. Manuscripts, African -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses. Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses. Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- Sources -- Manuscripts -- Congresses. Africa, Sub-Saharan. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11373123

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Other authors / contributors:	Brigaglia, Andrea, 1976- editor. Nobili, Mauro, editor.
ISBN:	9783110541403 3110541408 9783110541441 (PDF : online)
Notes:	"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. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	Most studies of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus on the textual dimension. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach. The contributions cover the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. materials, technologies, practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption.
Other form:	9783110541441 (PDF : online)
Standard no.:	9783110541403

Table of Contents:

Introduction : African history and islamic manuscript cultures / Mauro Nobili
New strategies in using watermarks to date Sub-Saharan islamic manuscripts / Michaelle Biddle
Fī Law%in Ma%fū₃ : towards a phenomenological analysis of the quranic tablet / Andrea Brigaglia
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
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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