Yemeni manuscript cultures in peril / edited by Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anṣārī, Ḥasan, 1970 or 1971- editor.

Schmidtke, Sabine, editor.

Series:

Gorgias handbooks ; v. 49.

Gorgias handbooks ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Arabic--Yemen (Republic).

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--Library resources.

Discarding of manuscripts, etc--Yemen (Republic).

Discarding of manuscripts, etc.

Zaydīs--Yemen (Republic)--History--Sources.

Zaydīs.

Manuscripts--Library resources.

Yemen (Republic)--Manuscripts--Library resources.

Yemen (Republic).

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

vi, 535 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2022.

Summary:

"The most significant and by far largest collections of Zaydi manuscripts are housed by the many public and private libraries of Yemen, an endangered cultural heritage tradition, currently at risk due to the conflict and warfare in Yemen. The contributions brought together in this volume address a wide spectrum of aspects concerning Yemeni manuscript cultures, with some focusing on their history and present state within Yemen and others discussing the collections of manuscripts of Yemeni provenance in Europe and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Fate of Yemeni Manuscripts, Late Nineteenth to Early Twenty-First Centuries: An Introduction / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke

Part One. Manuscript Libraries In Yemen

'Touching a Piece of History': The Life-Cycles and Destinies of Private Yemeni Libraries in an Era of Turmoil / Gabriele vom Bruck

al-Khizāna al-Mutawakkiliyya: The Imam's New Library / Brinkley Messick

The Historic Journey of Banī al-Wazīr's Library / Zaid bin Ali al-Wazir

Yemeni Cultural Patrimony in Manuscript Form: Several Decades of Public Policy / Anne Regourd

Nūr al-Maʻārif: The Late 13th-Century Rasulid Administrative Archive of al-Malik al-Muzaffar Yusuf / Daniel Martin Varisco

Part Two. Yemeni Manuscripts in the World

Toward a Reconstruction of Abd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʻAnsī's Oeuvre and Thought / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke

From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen: A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30 / Stefanie Brinkmann

Yemeni Manuscripts of Diverse Provenance at the Berlin State Library / Christoph Rauch

Eduard Glaser's Personal Nachlass in Archives of the Czech Republic / Jan Thiele

Opening Yemen Up to Italy: Coffee, Textiles, and Arabic Manuscripts / Valentina Sagaria Rossi

From the Eyries of Yemen to the Pastures of Holland: The Acquisition and Preservation of Yemeni Manuscripts at Leiden University Library / Karin Scheper and Arnoud Vrolijk

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUbaykān (1899-1993): A Saudi Official and His Yemeni Manuscript Collection / Bernard Haykel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Yemeni manuscript cultures in peril

ISBN:

9781463242022

1463242026

OCLC:

1338645907

Publisher Number:

99992999220