Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril / / ed. by Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Wazir, Zaid bin Ali,; Ansari, Hassan,; Brinkmann, Stefanie,; Bruck, Gabriele vom,; Haykel, Bernard,; Messick, Brinkley,; Rauch, Christoph,; Regourd, Anne,; Sagaria Rossi, Valentina,; Scheper, Karin,; Schmidtke, Sabine,; Thiele, Jan,; Varisco, Daniel Martin,; Vrolijk, Arnoud,
• HerausgeberIn: Ansari, Hassan,; Schmidtke, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Handbooks ; 49
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 p.)

Zaydism, a branch of Shiʿi Islam dating to the eighth century CE, has historic roots in the Northern Highlands of Yemen and the Caspian regions of Northern Iran, and its literary tradition is among the richest within Islamic civilization. The most significant and by far largest collections of Zaydi manuscripts are housed by the many public and private libraries of Yemen, an endangered cultural heritage tradition, currently at risk due to the conflict and warfare in Yemen. Of great importance are also holdings of Yemeni manuscripts that are kept elsewhere. In view of the poor state of scholarship in the area of Zaydi studies, the challenges that result from the significant dispersal of the material are manifold. Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril contributes to the history of books and libraries and their role in the scholastic culture in Yemen, past and present. The contributions brought together in this volume address a wide spectrum of aspects concerning Yemeni manuscript cultures, with some focusing on their history and present state within Yemen and others discussing the collections of manuscripts of Yemeni provenance in Europe and elsewhere. Contributions from Hassan Ansari, Stefanie Brinkmann, Gabriele vom Bruck, Bernard Haykel, Brinkley Messick, Christoph Rauch, Anne Regourd, Valentina Sagaria Rossi, Karin Scheper, Sabine Schmidtke, Jan Thiele, Daniel Martin Varisco, Arnoud Vrolijk, and Zayd al-Wazir.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The Fate of Yemeni Manuscripts, Late Nineteenth to Early Twenty-First Centuries: An Introduction -- PART ONE. MANUSCRIPT LIBRARIES IN YEMEN -- ‘Touching a Piece of History’: The Life-Cycles and Destinies of Private Yemeni Libraries in an Era of Turmoil -- al-Khizāna al-Mutawakkiliyya: The Imam’s New Library -- The Historic Journey of Banī al-Wazīr’s Library -- Yemeni Cultural Patrimony in Manuscript Form: Several Decades of Public Policy -- Nūr al-Maʿārif: The Late 13th-Century Rasulid Administrative Archive of al-Malik al- Muzaffar Yusuf -- PART TWO. YEMENI MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WORLD -- Toward a Reconstruction of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī’s Oeuvre and Thought -- From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen : A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30 -- Yemeni Manuscripts of Diverse Provenance at the Berlin State Library -- Eduard Glaser’s Personal Nachlass in Archives of the Czech Republic -- Opening Yemen Up to Italy: Coffee, Textiles, and Arabic Manuscripts -- From the Eyries of Yemen to the Pastures of Holland: The Acquisition and Preservation of Yemeni Manuscripts at Leiden University Library -- Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿUbaykān (1899–1993): A Saudi Official and His Yemeni Manuscript Collection -- Contributors