LEADER 03795oam 22004695 450 001 9910743696303321 005 20231108182028.0 010 $a3-031-34824-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-34824-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30728614 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30728614 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-34824-2 035 $a(OCoLC) 1396180650 035 $a(CKB)28152168700041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928152168700041 100 $a20230904d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTimbuktu unbound $eIslamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa /$fedited by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 161 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aHeritage Studies in the Muslim World,$x2662-7914 311 08$aPrint version: Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa Timbuktu Unbound Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031348235 327 $aTimbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa -- Colonialism and Book Culture: The Resistance of the Muslim Scholarly Communities in Northern Nigeria -- A Treasure in Disarray: Reflections on the Institute of African Studies Arabic Manuscripts Collections -- Efficacious Texts: Unraveling Nineteenth-Century Islamic Talismans in Asante (Ghana) -- Building Family and Community Ties Through Manuscripts -- Flecks of Timbuktu on the Skin: Excavating the Unbound Aspects of a Manuscript Collection. 330 $aTimbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa is a cutting edge collection offering a reconsideration of manuscripts in Muslim West Africa. The contributors give voice to the dynamic ways in which textuality operates through technological innovations, ongoing habituated practices, and how the workings of power and authority within these communities inform these texts and their roles. To that end this book explores a number of interrelated themes: the social value of texts as objects; personal libraries as forms of investment/legacy; social practices involved in the exchange, movement and gifting of certain kinds of manuscripts; hierarchies and evaluative treatments of manuscripts, and quasi-market forces. The recent destruction and subsequent salvage operations to protect the Timbuktu manuscript libraries has highlighted their role as the quintessential exemplar of manuscript heritage in newly historicized Africa. Yet these events also underscore the prevalent narrative about Muslim West African cultural heritage - embodied in the form of manuscripts, archives and documents - as under dramatic and existential threat. This volume seeks to diverge from this dominant salvific starting point of heritage discourse - namely, that such objects are things of intrinsic value to be saved - in order to examine the more nuanced activities of diverse actors engaged in the study, preservation, acquisition, movement and, in some cases, destruction and disposal of the wide range of materials that constitutes the textual heritage of these societies. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann is an Associate Professor at the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 410 0$aHeritage Studies in the Muslim World,$x2662-7914 606 $aIslam$zAfrica, West$xHistory 615 0$aIslam$xHistory. 676 $a297.0966 676 $a297.0966 701 $aEngmann$b Rachel Ama Asaa$01426805 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743696303321 996 $aTimbuktu Unbound$93559176 997 $aUNINA