{"product_id":"a-neo-fatimid-treasury-of-books-arabic-manuscripts-among-the-alawi-bohras-of-south-asia-paperback","title":"A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOlly Akkerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the \u003ci\u003ekhizanat al-kutub\u003c\/i\u003e, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the \u003ci\u003ekhizanat\u003c\/i\u003e of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one \u003ci\u003ekhizana\u003c\/i\u003e was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlly Akkerman is assistant professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on the social lives of Arabic manuscripts and their spaces of enshrinement within Muslim communities in the past and present, particularly in the context of the Bohras and the Western Indian Ocean (Yemen and Gujarat). She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology: a Study in Social Codicology\u003c\/i\u003e (Philological Encounters), \"Documentary Remains of a Fatimid Past in Gujarat\" in \u003ci\u003eJournal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World\u003c\/i\u003e, and is editor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Codicology: The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46198256664773,"sku":"9781474479578","price":67.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/YAmyariv_S9781474479578.webp?v=1778349650","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/a-neo-fatimid-treasury-of-books-arabic-manuscripts-among-the-alawi-bohras-of-south-asia-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}