1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006206610403321

Autore

Guttmann, Robert

Titolo

How Credit-Money Shapes the Economy : the United States in a global system / Robert Guttmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Sharpe, c1994

ISBN

1-56324-101-3

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 561 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

332.4973

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XV M[1] 129

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309058403316

Titolo

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy : Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa / / Mauro Nobili, Andrea Brigaglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; 12

Disciplina

746.57091767

Soggetti

Manuskript

Subsahara, Islam culture, manuscript

Subsahara

HISTORY / General

Africa, Sub-Saharan History Sources Manuscripts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach to the study of these manuscripts and gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption. The originality of this book is found in its methodological approach as well as its comparative geographic focus, presenting studies on a continental scale, including regions formerly neglected by existing scholarship, provides a unique opportunity to expand our still scanty knowledge of the different manuscript cultures that the African continent has developed and that often can still be considered as living traditions.