Arts and Crafts of Literacy : : Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Afric / / Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• VerfasserIn: Brigaglia, Andrea,; Nobili, Mauro,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nobili, Mauro,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages)

During 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures
• SECTION 1: WRITING SUPPORTS
• New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts
• Fī Lawḥin Maḥfūẓ: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of the Quranic Tablet
• SECTION 2: AROUND THE TEXTS
• Islamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts
• A Preliminary Appraisal of Marginalia in West African Manuscripts from the Mamma Haïdara Memorial Library Collection (Timbuktu)
• SECTION 3: WRITING PRACTICES AND AUTHORSHIP AROUND THE CONTINENTS
• Writing in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies
• Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali
• Arabic and Swahili Documents from the Pre-Colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885-1908): Who were the Scribes?
• SECTION 4: NOTES
• Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a Handbook in an Indigenous Fulfulde Script
• Elements of a 'Timbuktu Manual of Style'
• Seven Gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru Cemetery in Cape Town: A Descriptive Note
• Kaʾana Umar's 'CCI Quran': The Making of a Bornuan Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century
• Index of Place Names
• List of Contributors.