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Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam
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Andrea Brigaglia
Andrea Brigaglia is associate professor in African Studies at the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’. His main research interest is the history and anthropology of Islam in northern Nigeria, with a focus on the religious scholarly networks of the region. He has published on Hausa and Arabic Islamic poetry from Nigeria; on oral Qur’anic exegesis in Hausa; and on the Arabic calligraphic tradition of central Sudan.Dahir Lawan Mu’az is lecturer in the Department of Arabic, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. His research focuses on Sufi literature and manuscripts in Nigeria, with a particular interest in the Asrar tradition and Qur’anic education in northern Nigeria, especially the Almajiri system (Makarantun Allo).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- A Framework for the Analysis of Rewriting Practices, and Three Case Studies: Clay Tablets, Wax Tablets, and Erasable Coatings 1
- The Future of the Past: Rewriting as a Cultural Practice from Handwritten Artefacts to the Digital Age 63
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Clay and Wax
- A Restorer’s Look at Rewritable Media: Cuneiform Clay Tablets in Conservation 75
- Temporality on Clay Tablets: When the Component Parts of a Cuneiform Document Were Committed to Clay 115
- Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets 161
- Ashurbanipal and Objects for Esagil and Ešarra: A Case Study of Erasing, Removing, and Replacing Texts at the Height of the Assyrian Empire 191
- Refill, Reuse, Recycle? Reusing Wax Tablets in the Roman North-western Provinces 217
- Some Remarks on the Lexicon of Erasure between Antiquity and Middle Ages 255
- From Wax Tablets to Codices: The Possible Influence of the Stylus Holder on the Structure of Early Multi-gathering Codices 263
- Wax Tablets as Writing Media during the Middle Ages 309
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Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, and Wood
- Reasons for Papyrus Reuse in Ancient Egypt 335
- Coptic Palimpsests: When, Where, and Why? 357
- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Textual Analysis of Premodern Technical Recipes 373
- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report 411
- Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam 439
- Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning 475
- Contributors 503
- Index of Written Artefacts
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- A Framework for the Analysis of Rewriting Practices, and Three Case Studies: Clay Tablets, Wax Tablets, and Erasable Coatings 1
- The Future of the Past: Rewriting as a Cultural Practice from Handwritten Artefacts to the Digital Age 63
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Clay and Wax
- A Restorer’s Look at Rewritable Media: Cuneiform Clay Tablets in Conservation 75
- Temporality on Clay Tablets: When the Component Parts of a Cuneiform Document Were Committed to Clay 115
- Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets 161
- Ashurbanipal and Objects for Esagil and Ešarra: A Case Study of Erasing, Removing, and Replacing Texts at the Height of the Assyrian Empire 191
- Refill, Reuse, Recycle? Reusing Wax Tablets in the Roman North-western Provinces 217
- Some Remarks on the Lexicon of Erasure between Antiquity and Middle Ages 255
- From Wax Tablets to Codices: The Possible Influence of the Stylus Holder on the Structure of Early Multi-gathering Codices 263
- Wax Tablets as Writing Media during the Middle Ages 309
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Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, and Wood
- Reasons for Papyrus Reuse in Ancient Egypt 335
- Coptic Palimpsests: When, Where, and Why? 357
- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Textual Analysis of Premodern Technical Recipes 373
- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report 411
- Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam 439
- Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning 475
- Contributors 503
- Index of Written Artefacts
