Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of BooksCondition: NewSubtitle: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South AsiaEAN: 9781474479561ISBN: 9781474479561Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/31/2022Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmGenre: Literary CriticismAuthor: Olly AkkermanDescription: This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books
Title: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books
Subtitle: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia
EAN: 9781474479561
ISBN: 9781474479561
Release Date: 07/31/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books : Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Subject: Social History, Asia / India & South Asia, Europe / Medieval, Islam / Shi'a
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Author: Olly Akkerman
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
