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

• Main Author: Nobili, Mauro (auth)
• Other Authors: Brigaglia, Andrea (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2017
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• Subjects: manuscript; Islam culture; Subsahara
• Online Access: 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...