Ibadi Muslims of North Africa : manuscripts, mobilization, and the making of a written tradition /
The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis, Paul M. Love, Jr takes readers on a journey across the Maghrib and beyond as he traces the paths of a g...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Mobilizing with manuscripts
- Ibadi communities in the Maghrib
- Writing a network, constructing a tradition
- Sharpening the boundaries of community
- Formalizing the network
- Paper and people in northern Africa
- Retroactive networking
- The end of a tradition
- Orbits
- Ibadi manuscript culture
- (Re)inventing an Ibadi tradition
- Extant manuscript copies of the Ibadi prosopographies.
