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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in Manuscript Cultures ;
12 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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