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Social Codicology
The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
Series: - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 21
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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).
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).
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
2 توظيف العلماء العرب والمسلمين لطباق السماع في أبحاث تاريخيَّة وحضاريَّة في العهدين الأيوبيّ والمملوكيّ
Said Aljoumani
3 Traces of Reception: How Did Users Engage with the Autograph Manuscripts of Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn?
Torsten Wollina
4 The Social Life of Musical Manuscripts in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Case of Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik
Carl Dávila
5 Seeing and Hearing the Book: A Moroccan Edition of the Qurʾan
Anouk Cohen
6 Tilsim-i Ajaʾib and Taʾbir 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-Baʿṭūrī Library in Jerba, Tunisia
Paul Love
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 Kabīkaj: Organic Assemblages and Occult Ontologies of Islamic Manuscript Preservation Technology
Anwar Haneef
12 Exploring the Manuscripts of Tuwāt: 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
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
2 توظيف العلماء العرب والمسلمين لطباق السماع في أبحاث تاريخيَّة وحضاريَّة في العهدين الأيوبيّ والمملوكيّ
Said Aljoumani
3 Traces of Reception: How Did Users Engage with the Autograph Manuscripts of Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn?
Torsten Wollina
Part 2 Texts beyond Reading: Sensing Manuscripts
4 The Social Life of Musical Manuscripts in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Case of Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik
Carl Dávila
5 Seeing and Hearing the Book: A Moroccan Edition of the Qurʾan
Anouk Cohen
Part 3 Colonial Encounters: Collections, Displacement and Social Meaning
6 Tilsim-i Ajaʾib and Taʾbir 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-Baʿṭūrī 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 Kabīkaj: 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 Tuwāt: 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
Islamic Studies, Manuscript Studies, Codicology, Middle Eastern Studies, Philology, Anthropology, Social History, and Law