A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa

Contenu

Titre

A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa

Créateur

Hirji, Zulfikar Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2023

Dans

Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Abstract

This article examines a little-known corpus of illuminated Qurʾān manuscripts that were produced between ca. 1750–ca. 1850 in the Swahili city-states of Pate, Siyu, and Faza on Pate Island in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya). Now dispersed in collections in Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, the
UK
, and the
USA
, the manuscripts have many distinctive features: decorative frontispieces,
sūra
titles,
basmala
s, and division and prostration markers; locally developed Arabic script styles; colophons containing names of copyists and completion dates; endowment dedications; northern Italian-made paper; and, blind-stamped, leather covers. The list of known manuscripts presented in the appendix is aimed at encouraging the identification, digitization, and study of other manuscripts in the corpus. The study of their content, materiality, and contexts of production can advance scholarship on the histories of Islamic manuscript production in coastal East Africa and provide comparative material for manuscript studies in other regions of Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Langue

eng

volume

14

numéro

2-4

pages

356-395

doi

10.1163/1878464X-01401006

issn

1878-4631, 1878-464X

uri

https://brill.com/view/journals/jim/14/2-4/article-p356_7.xml

Hirji, Zulfikar, “A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa”, 2023, bibliographie, consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23546