Social Codicology: The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004689312)

This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume consists of contributions made by academics, curators, and librarians both from the global North and the global South (India, Kenya, Syria, South Africa).

Author: Olly Akkerman
ISBN-10: 9004689311
ISBN-13: 9789004689312
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2024
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback