Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108472500)

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 (eleventh-sixteenth century) 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.

Author: Paul M. Love Jr
ISBN-10: 1108472508
ISBN-13: 9781108472500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2018
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 6.10h x 9.40w x 0.50d