Arts and Crafts of Literacy : : Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Afric / / Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• VerfasserIn: Brigaglia, Andrea,; Nobili, Mauro,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nobili, Mauro,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2017.
• Godina izdanja: 2017
• Jezik: English
• Serija: Studies in Manuscript Cultures.
• Opis: 1 online resource (377 pages)

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...