Social Codicology

The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68931-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 21, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Akkerman, Olly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Social Codicology: Short Summaries

1 Introduction: Towards a Social Codicology of Islamic Manuscripts

Olly Akkerman

Part 1 Texts beyond Reading: Social Lives of Paratexts

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Said Aljoumani

3 Traces of Reception: How Did Users Engage with the Autograph Manuscripts of Mu?ammad Ibn ?ulun?

Torsten Wollina

Part 2 Texts beyond Reading: Sensing Manuscripts

4 The Social Life of Musical Manuscripts in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Case of Kunnash al-?a?ik

Carl Dávila

5 Seeing and Hearing the Book: A Moroccan Edition of the Qur?an

Anouk Cohen

Part 3 Colonial Encounters: Collections, Displacement and Social Meaning

6 Tilsim-i Aja?ib and Ta?bir al-Ruya: Bibliomantic Practices in Persian and Urdu Divination Manuscripts

Nur Sobers-Khan

7 The Library of an Eighteenthth-century Malay Bibliophile: Tengku Sayid Jafar, Panglima Besar of Selangor

Annabel TehGallop

8 A Library Lost: The al-Ba??uri Library in Jerba, Tunisia

Paul Love

Part 4 Scribal Cosmologies: Etiquettes of Writing and Preserving

9 Etiquettes of Manuscripts: Legal Discourses on Writing and Preserving Texts in the Malabar Coast

Mahmood Kooria

10 Writing and Preserving Islamic Legal Documents: Bukharan Fatwas in a Central Asian Jung Manuscript

Zahir Bhalloo and Sayyid SadiqHusayniIshkawari

11 Kinetic Kabikaj: Organic Assemblages and Occult Ontologies of Islamic Manuscript Preservation Technology

Anwar Haneef

Part 5 Ethnography and Codicology: Materiality and Community

12 Exploring the Manuscripts of Tuwat: History and Community Memory in the Algerian Sahara

Ismail Warscheid

13 Social Codicology in the Digital Age: Sensing Secret Bohra Manuscripts in situ and on the Screen

Olly Akkerman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).