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Timbuktu unbound = Islamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Timbuktu unbound/ edited by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann.
Reminder of title:	Islamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa /
other author:	Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xiv, 161 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Islam - History. - Africa, West -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34824-2
ISBN:	9783031348242

Timbuktu unbound = Islamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa /
Timbuktu unboundIslamic texts, textual traditions and heritage in West Africa /[electronic resource] :edited by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xiv, 161 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Heritage studies in the Muslim world,2662-7914. - Heritage studies in the Muslim world..

Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa -- Colonialism and Book Culture: The Resistance of the Muslim Scholarly Communities in Northern Nigeria -- A Treasure in Disarray: Reflections on the Institute of African Studies Arabic Manuscripts Collections -- Efficacious Texts: Unraveling Nineteenth-Century Islamic Talismans in Asante (Ghana) -- Building Family and Community Ties Through Manuscripts -- Flecks of Timbuktu on the Skin: Excavating the Unbound Aspects of a Manuscript Collection.

Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa is a cutting edge collection offering a reconsideration of manuscripts in Muslim West Africa. The contributors give voice to the dynamic ways in which textuality operates through technological innovations, ongoing habituated practices, and how the workings of power and authority within these communities inform these texts and their roles. To that end this book explores a number of interrelated themes: the social value of texts as objects; personal libraries as forms of investment/legacy; social practices involved in the exchange, movement and gifting of certain kinds of manuscripts; hierarchies and evaluative treatments of manuscripts, and quasi-market forces. The recent destruction and subsequent salvage operations to protect the Timbuktu manuscript libraries has highlighted their role as the quintessential exemplar of manuscript heritage in newly historicized Africa. Yet these events also underscore the prevalent narrative about Muslim West African cultural heritage - embodied in the form of manuscripts, archives and documents - as under dramatic and existential threat. This volume seeks to diverge from this dominant salvific starting point of heritage discourse - namely, that such objects are things of intrinsic value to be saved - in order to examine the more nuanced activities of diverse actors engaged in the study, preservation, acquisition, movement and, in some cases, destruction and disposal of the wide range of materials that constitutes the textual heritage of these societies. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann is an Associate Professor at the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

ISBN: 9783031348242

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-34824-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1429956
Islam
--History.--Africa, West

LC Class. No.: BP64.A38

Dewey Class. No.: 297.0966

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