Alessandro Gori

A Handlist of the Manuscripts in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Volume Two

The Arabic Materials of the Ethiopian Islamic Tradition

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This book provides a handlist of the Islamic codices hosted in the library of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Theirs is one of the most important collections of Islamic manuscripts in the horn of Africa. Almost totally unexplored, the collection contains many valuable examples of the rich and variegated manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Muslims. Each entry describes the main physical features and the most important texts contained in the codex. The catalogue includes a detailed analysis of a selection of watermarked papers and bindings--richly illustrated with pictures from the manuscripts.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Regourd, Anne / Brown, Jeremy R. / Delamarter, Steve

ISBN: 978-1-4982-1761-3
EAN: 9781498217613
Produktnummer: 34667161
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 17'833 KB
Reihenbandnummer: 20

Über den Autor

Alessandro Gori is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Copenhagen. His research activities focus on the Islamic literary tradition of the Horn of Africa, a field in which he is extensively published. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Islam in the Horn of Africa.Anne Regourd is Senior Researcher in the project Islam in the Horn of Africa at the University of Copenhagen and an Associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. She is head of the online journal Chroniques du manuscrit au Yemen.Jeremy Brown has served as director of digital imaging at the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project and is currently in the PhD program in Semitics at Catholic University of America.Steve Delamarter is Professor of Hebrew Bible at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, director of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, and founding chair of the section on Ethiopic Bible and Literature at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.