Social Codicology: The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
Social Codicology: The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
by Olly Akkerman
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004689311 | 484 Pages | PDF | 9.26 MB
by Olly Akkerman
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004689311 | 484 Pages | PDF | 9.26 MB
This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume consists of contributions made by academics, curators, and librarians both from the global North and the global South (India, Kenya, Syria, South Africa).