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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books
    sub title: Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia
  name:
    name part: Akkerman, Olly
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    place:
      place term: GB-SCT
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (528 pages) : 50 B/W illustrations
  abstract: Explores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwellingUtilises extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork including unique access to the Alawi Bohra treasury of booksShows that the manuscript transmission of Fatimid manuscripts is as much alive today as centuries agoArgues that the Alawi Bohra community's manuscript collection is fundamental to the construction of its Neo-Fatimid identityShifts the focus from the study of manuscripts as material objects to the social framework within which they gain meaning through their interaction with readersThis book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration and Dates -- Sources -- Prologue: Fatimid Encounters across the Indian Ocean -- Introduction Reading Sijistani in Gujarat: The Bohra Treasury of Books -- Inside the Treasury of Books: Reflections on the Ethnography of Manuscripts -- Chapter 1 Community: Introduction to the Alawi Bohras -- Chapter 2 Treasury of Books -- Chapter 3 Secret Universe -- Chapter 4 Manuscript Stories -- Chapter 5 Materiality of Secrecy -- Chapter 6 Script and Scribal Politics -- Conclusion: A Jihad for Books -- Epilogue: A Case for Social Codicology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Olly Akkerman.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Islamic libraries
    geographic: India
    geographic: Gujarat
  subject:
    topic: Ismailites
    geographic: India
    geographic: Gujarat
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Arabic
    geographic: India
    geographic: Gujarat
  subject:
    topic: Islamic Studies
  subject:
    topic: Bibliothèques islamiques
  subject:
    topic: Ismaéliens
    geographic: Inde
    geographic: Gujarāt
  subject:
    topic: Manuscrits arabes
    geographic: Inde
    geographic: Gujarāt
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Islamic libraries
  subject:
    topic: Ismailites
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Arabic
  subject:
    geographic: India
    geographic: Gujarat
  classification: Z675.I84 A35 2022
  classification: 027.6/7
  identifier: 9781474479585
  identifier: 1474479588
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 220830
    record change date: 20240212223814.8
    record identifier: in00004776529
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng