{"product_id":"ibadi-muslims-of-north-africa-manuscripts-mobilization-and-the-making-of-a-written-tradition-hardback-9781108472500","title":"Ibadi Muslims of North Africa; Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition (Hardback) 9781108472500","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIbadi Muslims of North Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eManuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombining manuscript analysis with digital tools to show how people and books worked together to build a religious tradition in North Africa.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul M. Love, Jr (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108472500, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages, 27 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Love's study of the biographical tradition of the Ibadi communities of North Africa from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, copied and recopied in manuscript and latterly in printed form down to the present day, is a highly original and perceptive analysis of the way in which the tradition has developed and circulated among those communities over the past thousand years, serving to maintain their social cohesion and religious identity in the face of the tide of history. As a contribution not only to the study of the Ibadis, but to the history of Islam itself, it cannot be too highly recommended.' Michael Brett, Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa, SOAS\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue. Tunis, 2014\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: mobilizing with manuscripts\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ibadi communities in the Maghrib\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing a network, constructing a tradition\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sharpening the boundaries of community\u003cbr\u003e 4. Formalizing the network\u003cbr\u003e 5. Paper and people in Northern Africa\u003cbr\u003e 6. Retroactive networking\u003cbr\u003e 7. The end of a tradition\u003cbr\u003e 8. Orbits\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ibadi manuscript culture\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: (re)inventing an Ibadi tradition\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: extant manuscript copies of the Ibadi prosopographies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: African history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on African history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22African%20history%20%5BHBJH%5D%22\"\u003eHBJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913248104728,"sku":"9781108472500","price":67.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108472500i_65fac9db-8152-4457-8f0e-9f5669c1acb1.jpg?v=1696702514","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ibadi-muslims-of-north-africa-manuscripts-mobilization-and-the-making-of-a-written-tradition-hardback-9781108472500","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}