Title: The arts and crafts of literacy :
Authors: Arts and Crafts of Literacy (Conference); Brigaglia, Andrea,; Nobili, Mauro,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter,
Physical description: x, 367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: Most studies of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus on the textual dimension. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach. The contributions cover the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. materials, technologies, practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption.
Contents: Introduction : African history and islamic manuscript cultures / Mauro Nobili -- New strategies in using watermarks to date Sub-Saharan islamic manuscripts / Michaelle Biddle -- Fī Law%in Ma%fū₃ : towards a phenomenological analysis of the quranic tablet / Andrea Brigaglia -- Islamic education and ample space layout in West African islamic manuscripts / Dmitry Bondarev -- A preliminary appraisal of marginalia in West African manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara memorial library collection (Timbuktu) / Susana Molins Lliteras -- Writing in Africa : the Kilwa chronicle and other sixteenth-century portuguese testimonies / Adrien Delmas -- Bamana texts in arabic characters : some leaves from Mali / Tal Tamari -- Arabic and Swahili documents from the pre-colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo free state, 1885-1908) : who were the scribes? / Xavier Luffin --   Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a handbook in an indigenous fulfulde script / Mohamadou Halirou -- Elements of a 'Timbuktu manual of style' / Mahmoud Mohamed Dédéou and Shamil Jeppie -- Seven gravestones at the muslim Tana Baru cemetery in Cape Town : a descriptive note / Alessandro Gori -- Kaʼana Umar's 'CCI Quran' : The Making of a Bornuan manuscript in the twenty-first century / Maimadu Barma Mutai and Andrea Brigaglia.
Notes: "The articles in this volume were originally presented at the conference The arts and crafts of literacy: manuscript cultures in Muslim Sub-Saharan Africa, held at the University of Cape Town, 5-6 September 2013"--Page vii.
Subject headings (LCSH): Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--Sources--Manuscripts--Congresses.; Islamic civilization--Manuscripts--Congresses.; Manuscripts, African--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.; Manuscripts, Arabic--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.; Manuscripts--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.