Love, Jr, Paul M.

Ibadi Muslims of North Africa

Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the Ibadi Muslims of North Africa, this book traces the history of Arabic texts to tell the story of how people and their networks build religious traditions. Combining the study of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools, it explains how this religious community created and maintained a tradition over nearly a millennium.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 231
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781108459013
• ISBN-10: 1108459013
• Artikelnr.: 59642242

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Love, Jr is Assistant Professor of North African, Middle Eastern, and Islamic history at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is a former Fulbright scholar, and received three prestigious Critical Language Scholarships from the United States Department of State. His research has been funded by the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Social Sciences Research Council, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Tunis, 2014
Introduction: mobilizing with manuscripts
1. Ibadi communities in the Maghrib
2. Writing a network, constructing a tradition
3. Sharpening the boundaries of community
4. Formalizing the network
5. Paper and people in Northern Africa
6. Retroactive networking
7. The end of a tradition
8. Orbits
9. Ibadi manuscript culture
Conclusion: (re)inventing an Ibadi tradition
Appendix: extant manuscript copies of the Ibadi prosopographies.