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Social Codicology

The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies

Häftad, Arabiska, 2024

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This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume consists of contributions made by academics, curators, and librarians both from the global North and the global South (India, Kenya, Syria, South Africa).

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-19
Mått155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt811 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkArabiska, Engelska
SerieLeiden Studies in Islam and Society
Antal sidor454
FörlagBrill
MedarbetareAkkerman,Olly
ISBN9789004689312

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Olly Akkerman is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is a specialist on Arabic manuscripts and Shi'i Islam. Her research examines the social life of manuscript repositories, and other forms of material culture among the Bohras in South Asia and the larger Western Indian Ocean. Her publications include The Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology: a Study in Social Codicology and a monograph: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books in Gujarat. Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia (EUP, 2022).

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsSocial Codicology: Short Summaries1 Introduction: Towards a Social Codicology of Islamic ManuscriptsOlly AkkermanPart 1 Texts beyond Reading: Social Lives of Paratexts2 توظيف العلماء العرب والمسلمين لطباق السماع في أبحاث تاريخيَّة وحضاريَّة في العهدين الأيوبيّ والمملوكيّSaid Aljoumani3 Traces of Reception: How Did Users Engage with the Autograph Manuscripts of Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn?Torsten WollinaPart 2 Texts beyond Reading: Sensing Manuscripts4 The Social Life of Musical Manuscripts in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Case of Kunnāsh al-ḤāʾikCarl Dávila5 Seeing and Hearing the Book: A Moroccan Edition of the QurʾanAnouk CohenPart 3 Colonial Encounters: Collections, Displacement and Social Meaning6 Tilsim-i Ajaʾib and Taʾbir al-Ruya: Bibliomantic Practices in Persian and Urdu Divination ManuscriptsNur Sobers-Khan7 The Library of an Eighteenthth-century Malay Bibliophile: Tengku Sayid Jafar, Panglima Besar of SelangorAnnabel TehGallop8 A Library Lost: The al-Baʿṭūrī Library in Jerba, TunisiaPaul LovePart 4 Scribal Cosmologies: Etiquettes of Writing and Preserving9 Etiquettes of Manuscripts: Legal Discourses on Writing and Preserving Texts in the Malabar CoastMahmood Kooria10 Writing and Preserving Islamic Legal Documents: Bukharan Fatwas in a Central Asian Jung ManuscriptZahir Bhalloo and Sayyid SadiqHusayniIshkawari11 Kinetic Kabīkaj: Organic Assemblages and Occult Ontologies of Islamic Manuscript Preservation TechnologyAnwar HaneefPart 5 Ethnography and Codicology: Materiality and Community12 Exploring the Manuscripts of Tuwāt: History and Community Memory in the Algerian SaharaIsmail Warscheid13 Social Codicology in the Digital Age: Sensing Secret Bohra Manuscripts in situ and on the ScreenOlly AkkermanIndex