Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition, by Paul M. Love
Contenu
- Titre
- Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition, by Paul M. Love
- Auteur
- Prevost, Virginie
- Date
- 2020
- Résumé
- This interesting and concise book finds its origin in Paul Love’s doctoral thesis defended in 2016 at the University of Michigan. It presents an innovative study of medieval Ibadi North-African Siyar. In the Maghrib, Siyar are books containing anecdotal and biographical information about individuals, playing the role of chronicle-style history; they function as prosopographies, collective biographies in which stories about individual members come together to form the biography of the community, constructing a North-African Ibadi tradition (p. xx). Love’s book tells the story of the compilation, adaptation and circulation of that prosopographical corpus through five scholars’ works. The pioneer is Abû Zakariyyâ’ al-Wârjalânî who provided Ibadi scholars of the second part of the eleventh century with a cohesive narrative of their history, when the community was suffering an ongoing numerical decline; he chose to write in the Arabic language at a time when use of the Berber language was also in decline. The author then studies the works of al-Wisyânî, al-Darjînî and al-Barrâdî. The last Ibadi scholar is al-Shammâkhî (d. 1522), who compiled all of the biographies of his predecessors into one collection and brought that medieval tradition of Ibadi prosopography to a close.
- Sujet
- Recension
- Langue
- eng
- analyse de
- Love Jr, Paul M.
- volume
- 135
- numéro
- 572
- pages
- 170-172
- doi
- 10.1093/ehr/cez412
- issn
- 0013-8266, 1477-4534
- Titre abrégé
- Ibadi Muslims of North Africa
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