Ibadi Muslims of North Africa : manuscripts, mobilization, and the making of a written tradition / Paul M. Love Jr., Al Akhawayn University, Morocco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, Paul M., Jr., 1985- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibadites--Africa, North.

Ibadites.

North Africa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Mobilizing with manuscripts

Ibadi communities in the Maghrib

Writing a network, constructing a tradition

Sharpening the boundaries of community

Formalizing the network

Paper and people in northern Africa

Retroactive networking

The end of a tradition

Orbits

Ibadi manuscript culture

(Re)inventing an Ibadi tradition

Extant manuscript copies of the Ibadi prosopographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108472500

1108472508

OCLC:

1034597946