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

• Päätekijä: Nobili, Mauro (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Brigaglia, Andrea (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: De Gruyter 2017
• Sarja: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• Aiheet: manuscript; Islam culture; Subsahara
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 l...