Mobile Manuscripts

Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvChristopher D. Bahl,Christopher D. (Durham University) Bahl

1 799 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping, and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz, Yemen and further on to Gujarat and the Deccan, networks of manuscript circulation created shared social and cultural spaces across the early modern western Indian Ocean, in which South Asia was a key node of connection. Largely unstudied Arabic manuscripts from collections in eight different archives offer a new source base to explore the region as a hub of Arabic scholarly culture, while marginalia and notes provide an empirical treasure trove for the study of social spaces and cultural practices. This is the first book to trace these truly transoceanic encounters between scholars, sultans, scribes, readers, and librarians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-02-06
Mått237 x 160 x 27 mm
Vikt632 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Oceanic Histories
Antal sidor340
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009359726

Tillhör följande kategorier

Introduction; 1. The prosopographical world of maritime mobilities; 2. The Royal Library of Bijapur: the emergence of a textual entrepot; 3. Arabic philology in early modern South Asia; 4. Mobile Arabic learning from Egypt to the Deccan; 5. From the Deccan to Istanbul: a transoceanic community of readers; Conclusion: Arabic learning across the early modern western Indian Ocean world; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.

'This book is a truly valuable and timely contribution. Using a staggering number of diverse sources and analyzing them with impressive and versatile erudition, the author makes a compelling case for the importance of Arabic as a major medium of scholarship in South Asia. Further, his framework of transoceanic cultural circulation compels us to recognize that Arabic scholarship in South Asia was connected to a much wider Muslim world and that it can no longer remain marginal to Arabic Studies.' Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley

Mer från samma författare

Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800

Christopher D. Bahl, Stefan Hanß

Inbunden

1 249 kr

Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800

Christopher D. Bahl, Stefan Hanß

Häftad

1 829 kr

Mer från samma serie

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

Philip Gooding, Montreal) Gooding, Philip (McGill University

Inbunden

1 319 kr

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

Philip Gooding, Montreal) Gooding, Philip (McGill University

Häftad

519 kr

The Gods of the Sea

Fynn Holm, Germany) Holm, Fynn (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen

Inbunden

1 429 kr

The Gods of the Sea

Fynn Holm, Germany) Holm, Fynn (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen

Häftad

519 kr

Mooring the Global Archive

Martin Dusinberre

Inbunden

1 199 kr

Mooring the Global Archive

Martin Dusinberre, Martin (Universitat Zurich) Dusinberre

Häftad

379 kr

Encroaching Sea

Devika Shankar, Devika (University of Hong Kong) Shankar

Inbunden

1 539 kr

The Kuroshio Frontier

Jonas Rüegg, Jonas Rüegg, Jonas (University of Zurich) Ruegg

Inbunden

1 629 kr

Itinerant Belonging

Ketaki Pant, Ketaki (University of Southern California) Pant

Inbunden

1 519 kr

Du kanske också är intresserad av

Oceanic Histories

David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram, Massachusetts) Armitage, David (Harvard University, Sydney) Bashford, Alison (University of New South Wales, Sujit (University of Cambridge) Sivasundaram

Häftad

419 kr