Creating Standards : : Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.16
• Author: Bondarev, Dmitry.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gori, Alessandro.; Souag, Lameen.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 pages)

The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) -- Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script -- Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in the First Centuries of the Islamic Era -- Writing Judaeo-Arabic -- Cross Palaeographic Traditions. Some Examples from Old Christian Arabic Sources -- Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts -- How to write Turkish? The Vagaries of the Arabo-Persian Script in Ottoman-Turkish Texts -- Developing Consistency in the Absence of Standards - A Manuscript as a Melting- Pot of Languages, Religions and Writing Systems -- Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing -- A Collection of Unstandardised Consistencies? The Use of Jawi Script in a Few Early Malay Manuscripts from the Moluccas -- Standardisation Tendencies in Kanuri and Hausa Ajami Writings -- Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation -- Beyond 'aǧamī in Ethiopia: a short Note on an Arabic-Islamic Collection of Texts written in Ethiopian Script (fidäl) -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons.