02860nam 2200385 450 991063776820332120230330173031.0(CKB)5470000001631796(NjHacI)995470000001631796(EXLCZ)99547000000163179620230330d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Neo-Fatimid treasury of books Arabic manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia /Olly AkkermanEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2023.1 online resource (xxi, 382 pages) illustrations1-4744-7956-1 Frontmatter i -- Contents v -- Maps and Figures vii -- Acknowledgements xii -- Notes on Transliteration and Dates xv -- Sources xvi -- Prologue: Fatimid Encounters across the Indian Ocean xix -- Introduction Reading Sijistani in Gujarat: The Bohra Treasury of Books 1 -- Inside the Treasury of Books: Reflections on the Ethnography of Manuscripts 21 -- Chapter 1 Community: Introduction to the Alawi Bohras 45 -- Chapter 2 Treasury of Books 98 -- Chapter 3 Secret Universe 158 -- Chapter 4 Manuscript Stories 209 -- Chapter 5 Materiality of Secrecy 249 -- Chapter 6 Script and Scribal Politics 300 -- Conclusion: A Jihad for Books 345 -- Epilogue: A Case for Social Codicology 351 -- Glossary 353 -- Bibliography -- 359 -- Index 374.This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books Manuscripts, ArabicHistoryManuscripts, ArabicIndia Manuscripts, ArabicHistory.Manuscripts, Arabic011.30973541Akkerman Olly1267744NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910637768203321A Neo-Fatimid treasury of books3074673UNINA00892nam0 22002411i 450 UON0052313420240221103459.20020240221d1972 |0itac50 barusRU|||| 1||||Kategorii srednevekovoj kul'turyA. Ja. GurevičMoskvaIskusstvo1972317 p.21 cmRUMoskvaUONL003152GUREVIČAron JakovlevičUONV10348344678Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo IskusstvoUONV251852650ITSOL20241213RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00523134SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI EO DUOMO IX G 0169 SI EO 1902 5 0169 Kategorii srednevekovoj kul'tury14402UNIOR