The Arts And Crafts Of Literacy Islamic Manuscript Cultures In Sub Saharan Afric

Author : Andrea Brigaglia,Mauro Nobili
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110541441

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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy by Andrea Brigaglia,Mauro Nobili Pdf

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 literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach to the study of these manuscripts and gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption. The originality of this book is found in its methodological approach as well as its comparative geographic focus, presenting studies on a continental scale, including regions formerly neglected by existing scholarship, provides a unique opportunity to expand our still scanty knowledge of the different manuscript cultures that the African continent has developed and that often can still be considered as living traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1097065025

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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy. Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Afric by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graziano Krätli,Ghislaine Lydon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004187429

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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade by Graziano Krätli,Ghislaine Lydon Pdf

Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Author : Andrea Brigaglia,Mauro Nobili
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110541649

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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy by Andrea Brigaglia,Mauro Nobili Pdf

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 literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach to the study of these manuscripts and gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption. The originality of this book is found in its methodological approach as well as its comparative geographic focus, presenting studies on a continental scale, including regions formerly neglected by existing scholarship, provides a unique opportunity to expand our still scanty knowledge of the different manuscript cultures that the African continent has developed and that often can still be considered as living traditions.

Author : William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119063575

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A Companion to African History by William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe Pdf

Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.

Author : Shamil Jeppie,Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082635833

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The Meanings of Timbuktu by Shamil Jeppie,Souleymane Bachir Diagne Pdf

Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu." 15th-century Malian proverb. In a joint project between South Africa and Mali, a library to preserve more than 200 000 Arabic and West African manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries is currently under construction. It is the first official cultural project of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), the socio-economic development plan of the African Union, and when the library is built, the cultural role of Timbuktu will be revived, as it becomes the safehaven for the treasured manuscripts. The manuscripts prove that Africa had a rich legacy of written history, long before western colonisers set foot on the continent. This volume, authored by leading international scholars, begins to sketch the 'meaning' of Timbuktu within the context of the intellectual history of West Africa, in particular, and of the African continent, in general. The book covers four broad areas: Part I provides an introduction to the region; outlines what archaeology can tell us of its history, examines the paper and various calligraphic styles used in the manuscripts; and explains how ancient institutions of scholarship functioned. Part II begins to analyse what the manuscripts can tell us of African history. Part III offers insight into the lives and works of just a few of the many scholars who achieved renown in the region and beyond. Part IV provides a glimpse into Timbuktu's libraries and private collections. Part V looks at the written legacy of the eastern half of Africa, which like that of the western region, is often ignored. A fascinating read for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of the aura of mystique and legend that surrounds Timbuktu. The Meanings of Timbuktu strives to contextualise and clarify the importance of efforts to preserve Timbuktu's manuscripts for Mali, for Africa and for the intellectual world."--Abstract

Author : Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031348242

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Timbuktu Unbound by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann Pdf

Author : Fallou Ngom,Mustapha H. Kurfi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030457594

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The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa by Fallou Ngom,Mustapha H. Kurfi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jihād movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.

Author : Scott Reese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110776485

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition by Scott Reese Pdf

This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-called transition from manuscript to print is unidirectional. Indeed, rather than distinct technologies that emerge in a progressive series (one naturally following the other), they frequently co-exist in complex and complementary relationships – relationships we are only now starting to recognize and explore. The book brings together essays by internationally recognized scholars from an array of disciplines (including philology, linguistics, religious studies, history, anthropology, and typography) whose work focuses on the written word – channeled through various media – as a social and cultural phenomenon within the Islamic tradition. These essays promote systematic approaches to the study of Islamic writing cultures writ large, in an effort to further our understanding of the social, cultural and intellectual relationships between manuscripts, printed texts and the people who use and create them.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002144

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Reading the past, writing the future by UNESCO Pdf

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Author : Hephzibah Israel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315443478

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion by Hephzibah Israel Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion is the first to bring together an extensive interdisciplinary engagement with the multiple ways in which the concepts and practices of translation and religion intersect. The book engages a number of scholarly disciplines in conversation with each other, including the study of translation and interpreting, religion, philosophy, anthropology, history, art history, and area studies. A range of leading international specialists critically engage with changing understandings of the key categories ‘translation’ and ‘religion’ as discursive constructs, thus contributing to the development of a new field of academic study, translation and religion. The twenty-eight contributions, divided into six parts, analyze how translation constructs ideas, texts or objects as 'sacred' or for ‘religious purposes’, often in competition with what is categorized as ‘non-religious.’ The part played by faith communities is treated as integral to analyses of the role of translation in religion. It investigates how or why translation functions in re-constructing and transforming religion(s) and for whom and examines a range of ‘sacred texts’ in translation—from the written to the spoken, manuscript to print, paper to digital, architectural form to objects of sacred art, intersemiotic scriptural texts, and where commentary, exegesis and translation interweave. This Handbook is an indispensable scholarly resource for researchers in translation studies and the study of religions.

Author : Catherine A. Bradley,Karen Desmond
Publisher : Studies in Medieval and Renais
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783272724

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The Montpellier Codex by Catherine A. Bradley,Karen Desmond Pdf

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.

Author : Terje Østebø
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000471724

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Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa by Terje Østebø Pdf

Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa Politics and Islamic reform Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims New technologies, media, and popular culture. Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader sociopolitical developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology.

Author : Ashraf Abdelhay,Yonas Mesfun Asfaha,Kasper Juffermans
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443868266

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African Literacies by Ashraf Abdelhay,Yonas Mesfun Asfaha,Kasper Juffermans Pdf

Africa is often depicted as the continent with the lowest literacy rates in the world. Moving beyond this essentialising representation, this volume explores African literacies within their complex and diverse multilingual and multiscriptal histories and contexts of use. The chapters examine contexts from the Maghreb to Mozambique and from Senegambia to the Horn of Africa and critically analyse multiple literacy genres and practices – from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging – in relation to questions of language-in-education and policy, livelihoods, Islamic scholarship, colonialism, translocal migration, and writing systems. As a whole, the book serves as an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa seen through the lens of literacy, and marks a unique contribution to scholarship in literacy studies offering a convenient collection of perspectives on and from Africa.

Author : Stefanie Brinkmann,Giovanni Ciotti,Stefano Valente,Eva Maria Wilden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110741179

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Education Materialised by Stefanie Brinkmann,Giovanni Ciotti,Stefano Valente,Eva Maria Wilden Pdf

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations. The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.