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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa (Studies in Manuscript Cultures) by Andrea Brigaglia; Mauro Nobili; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa (Studies in Manuscript Cultures) about?
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 literacy.However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a h
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- Author
- Andrea Brigaglia; Mauro Nobili; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
- Publisher
- de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110541403
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Islam
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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