Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: manuscripts, mobilization, and the making of a written tradition

The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis, Paul M. Love Jr. takes readers on a journey across the Maghrib and beyond as he traces the paths of a g...

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1. VerfasserIn: Love, Paul M., Jr. 1985- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2018
In:Jahr: 2018
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
weitere Schlagwörter:B Ibadites Africa, North
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Zusammenfassung:The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis, Paul M. Love Jr. takes readers on a journey across the Maghrib and beyond as he traces the paths of a group of manuscripts and the Ibadi scholars who used them. Ibadi scholars of the Middle Period (11th-16th c.) wrote a series of collective biographies (prosopographies), which together constructed a cumulative tradition that connected Ibadi Muslims from across time and space, bringing them together into a "written network." From the Mzab valley in Algeria to the island of Jerba in Tunisia, from the Jebel Nafusa in Libya to the bustling metropolis of early-modern Cairo, this book shows how people and books worked in tandem to construct and maintain an Ibadi Muslim tradition in the Maghrib
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1108472508