The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa 9783110541441, 9783110541403

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa 9783110541441, 9783110541403

During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa h

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Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology 9781474409179

A primary sourcebook for the study of traditional art and craft practices of the Islamic world Islamic art is justly fa

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Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology 9781474409162, 9781474409193, 9781474409179, 9781474409186

Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employme

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Hand tools of arts and crafts

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Pioneer Arts and Crafts 9781487596279

Pioneer Arts and Crafts describes all aspects of domestic manufactures and processes of pioneer days, tracing the develo

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition 9783110776485, 9783110776034

Open Access This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technolog

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Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril 9781463242039

Zaydism, a branch of Shiʿi Islam dating to the eighth century CE, has historic roots in the Northern Highlands of Yemen

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The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law 9780226749358

Islam’s tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, w

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Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement 9781526140449

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented

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Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field 9783110225631, 9783110225624

New series Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of pr

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