Introduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: African History and Islamic Manuscript Cultures 1
5. Section 1: Writing Supports
6. New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts 27
7. Fī Lawḥin Maḥfūẓ: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of the Quranic Tablet 69
8. Section 2: Around the Texts
9. Islamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts 105
10. A Preliminary Appraisal of Marginalia in West African Manuscripts from the Mamma Haïdara Memorial Library Collection (Timbuktu) 143
11. Section 3: Writing Practices and Authorship around the Continents
12. Writing in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies 181
13. Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali 207
14. Arabic and Swahili Documents from the Pre-Colonial Congo and the EIC (Congo Free State, 1885–1908): Who were the Scribes? 279
15. Section 4: Notes
16. Moodibbo Bello Aamadu Mohammadu and the Daada Maaje, a Handbook in an Indigenous Fulfulde Script 299
17. Elements of a ‘Timbuktu Manual of Style’ 309
18. Seven Gravestones at the Muslim Tana Baru Cemetery in Cape Town: A Descriptive Note 313
19. Kaʾana Umar’s ‘CCI Quran’: The Making of a Bornuan Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century 331
20. Index of Place Names 353
21. List of Contributors 365