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The book explores the Arabic script in its widest possible usage in Africa: in Arabic texts; as a sacred Islamic script; and as a script for writing African languages. Through various contributions, the book examines the social impact of Arabic-script writing, aiming to parse the materiality of the book in African societies and to understand African manuscripts in their life cycles from creation to archival shelf. Essays examine Arabic-script manuscripts as material objects, statements of social values, cultural affirmations, and spiritual companions. They peel back the chronological layers of `ajami writing that has been used for instruction and cultural and political identity, and remind us of how new technologies enhance access to these manuscripts, just as they present challenges to the intellectual property they represent. Essays are organised into five parts: Manuscript Collections, Manuscript Networks, Manuscripts and Social Values, and Technical Issues; with a concluding essay that identifies the core texts in West Africa's manuscript culture during the past 300 years. AUTHOR: Charles C. Stewart, Professor Emeritus in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Ahmed Chaouki Binebine, Director of the Royal Treasury (Bibliothèque al-Hassania) – Rabat, Morocco. Contributors include Jonathan E. Brockopp (Pennsylvania State University), Mohamed Diagayeté (Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in Timbuktu – IHERI-ABT), Seyni Moumouni (Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey), Ahmed Saidy (Ibn Zohr University), and Amidu Olalekan Sanni (Fountain University), among others. SELLING POINTS: . The book marks a shift from a topic about which scholars know relatively little, to a new level of detailed, empirical work that opens up a whole new field of African intellectual history . The book pushes forward what is known about manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa and helps to better understand not only African language writing using Arabic script, but also the larger process of Islamicisation across the continent . For those interested in Islam in Africa, and in the complicated interface between Arabic as the language of sacred knowledge (for Muslims) and African vernaculars into which this knowledge was translated 210 colour illustrations

Table of Contents:
19 Manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa Charles C. Stewart Introduction 46 Recovering the life stories of Africa’s manuscripts Mary Minicka Manuscript collections 82 The Kairouan manuscript collection Jonathan E. Brockopp 105 Arabic manuscript collections at the University of Ibadan Afis A. Oladosu and Izzudeen Adetunji 119 Défis de catalogage et de l'édition critique à l'IHERI-ABT Mohamed Diagayeté Manuscript networks 134 Islamic manuscripts and scholarly networks of the greater Senegambia Darya Ogorodnikova 158 Manuscript preservation in Borno State, Nigeria Ahmadu Hamman Girei 175 Printing Arabic manuscripts in the sixteenth century Olga Verlato Manuscripts and social values 198 Musical manuscripts in early-modern Morocco Carl Davila 228 Arabic and Pulaar manuscripts in Senegal and Mali Samba Camara and Mohamed Mwamzandi 255 Aspects de la tradition manuscrite en Afrique de l’Ouest Seyni Moumouni Technical issues 278 Standardizing West African manuscript metadata David Calabro, Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor: 297 Challenges of a standard orthography for the Yoruba `ajamī script Amidu Olalekan Sanni Epilogue 324 Literary authority in Islamic West Africa Charles Stewart 404 Authors’ biographies

About the Author :
Charles C. Stewart, Professor Emeritus in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Ahmed Chaouki Binebine, Director of the Royal Treasury (Bibliothèque al-Hassania) – Rabat, Morocco. Contributors include Jonathan E. Brockopp (Pennsylvania State University), Mohamed Diagayeté (Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in Timbuktu – IHERI-ABT), Seyni Moumouni (Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey), Ahmed Saidy (Ibn Zohr University), and Amidu Olalekan Sanni (Fountain University), among others.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781739260705
  • Publisher: The Islamic Manuscript Association
  • Publisher Imprint: The Islamic Manuscript Association
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Weight: 2111 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1739260708
  • Publisher Date: 31 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 59 mm
  • Width: 165 mm


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