Social Codicology
The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
Contributor(s)
Akkerman, Olly (editor)
Language
Arabic; EnglishAbstract
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).
Keywords
Middle Eastern history; Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups; Manuscripts and illumination; AnthropologyDOI
10.1163/9789004689329ISBN
9789004689329, 9789004689312, 9789004689329Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://0-brill-com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/Publication date and place
2024Series
Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, 21Classification
Middle Eastern history
Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups
Manuscripts and illumination
Anthropology