LEADER 04634nam 22005895 450 001 9910258748303321 005 20210111210507.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110541441 035 $a(CKB)4100000002260363 035 $a(DE-B1597)480678 035 $a(OCoLC)1004883056 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110541441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5493969 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5493969 035 $a(OCoLC)1049913291 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002260363 100 $a20190615d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Arts and Crafts of Literacy $eIslamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa /$fMauro Nobili, Andrea Brigaglia 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in Manuscript Cultures ;$v12 311 $a3-11-054144-0 311 $a3-11-054140-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures / $rNobili, Mauro -- $tSection 1: Writing Supports -- $tNew Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts / $rBiddle, Michaelle -- $tF? Law?in Ma?f??: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of the Quranic Tablet / $rBrigaglia, Andrea -- $tSection 2: Around the Texts -- $tIslamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts / $rBondarev, Dmitry -- $tA Preliminary Appraisal of Marginalia in West African Manuscripts from the Mamma Haïdara Memorial Library Collection (Timbuktu) / $rLliteras, Susana Molins -- $tSection 3: Writing Practices and Authorship around the Continents -- $tWriting in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies / $rDelmas, Adrien -- $tBamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali / $rTamari, Tal -- $tArabic and Swahili Documents from the Pre-Colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885-1908): Who were the Scribes? / $rLuffin, Xavier -- $tSection 4: Notes -- $tMoodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a Handbook in an Indigenous Fulfulde Script / $rHalirou, Mohamadou -- $tElements of a 'Timbuktu Manual of Style' / $rDédéou, Mahmoud Mohamed / Jeppie, Shamil -- $tSeven Gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru Cemetery in Cape Town: A Descriptive Note / $rGori, Alessandro -- $tKa?ana Umar's 'CCI Quran': The Making of a Bornuan Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century / $rMutai, Maimadu Barma / Brigaglia, Andrea -- $tIndex of Place Names -- $tList of Contributors 330 $aDuring the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach to the study of these manuscripts and gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption. The originality of this book is found in its methodological approach as well as its comparative geographic focus, presenting studies on a continental scale, including regions formerly neglected by existing scholarship, provides a unique opportunity to expand our still scanty knowledge of the different manuscript cultures that the African continent has developed and that often can still be considered as living traditions. 410 0$aStudies in Manuscript Cultures Ser. 606 $aManuskript 606 $aSubsahara, Islam culture, manuscript 606 $aSubsahara 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xHistory$xSources$xManuscripts 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aSubsahara, Islam culture, manuscript. 615 4$aManuskript. 615 4$aSubsahara, Islam culture, manuscript. 615 4$aSubsahara. 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a746.57091767 702 $aBrigaglia$b Andrea, 702 $aNobili$b Mauro, 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910258748303321 996 $aThe Arts and Crafts of Literacy$92041520 997 $aUNINA