Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities

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The past few decades have seen a burgeoning interest in the manuscript cultures of the Muslim world. The study of manuscripts has brought to light new perspectives on the transmission of texts and larger questions of cultural practices passed down within the learned circles of premodern Muslim societies. The intellectual and literary heritage of Ismaili communities, who form a branch of Shi'i Islam, has until recently been preserved in private and largely inaccessible libraries. This open access volume brings together studies offering insights on different aspects of the manuscript cultures nurtured by Ismaili communities until well after the widespread dissemination of printed books.The range of materials transmitted via these manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Indic languages also reflects the doctrinal and literary preoccupations of Muslims at large and of other groups from the societies in which Ismailis lived. Hence, the manuscripts bear the imprint of their respective cultural contexts, namely a number of regions from the Near East to Central and South Asia.In addition to engaging with multifaceted problems surrounding the processes of textual transmission, the chapters in this book deal with other connected aspects like codicology, scribal and reading practices, educational and social history, authorship, communal script, religious identity and interactions of ideas across ideological denominations. With contributions from specialists and early-career scholars, the volume will be of interest to those working on textual scholarship, manuscript and literary cultures and Islamic studies.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd.

Author Biography

Wafi Momin is Head of the Ismaili Special Collections Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK, where he teaches courses on developments in modern and contemporary Muslim Societies and aspects of Islam in South Asia. He received his doctorate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, US, and has written articles on Ismaili tradition in South Asia and its interaction with Indic religious movements.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsNote on ContributorsTransliteration, Dates, and AbbreviationsIntroduction, Wafi A. Momin, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSection I: THE SHAPING OF A NEW FIELD1. Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK2. Husain Hamdani, Paul Kraus, and a Suitcase Full of Manuscripts, François de Blois, University of Cambridge, UKSection II: RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA', KITAB AL-ZINA, AND THEIR MANUSCRIPT TRADITION3. The Ikhwan al-Safa's Epistles on Logic in Some Manuscripts of the IIS Arabic Collection, Carmela Baffioni, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK4. The Missing Link? MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' , Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK5. The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi's Kitab al-Zina at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Cornelius Berthold, University of Hamburg, GermanySection III: EXPLORING TWO EARLY TAYYIBI WORKS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION6. The Majmu' al-tarbiya between Text and Paratext: Exploring the Social History of a Community's Reading Culture, Delia Cortese, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK7. Textual, Orthographic Variations and Scribes' Annotations: A Possible Tool for the Transmission Analysis of the Text?, Monica Scotti, University of Naples "L'Orientale", ItalySection IV: REVISITING NIZARI HISTORY OF ALAMUT TIMES8. Alamut and Badakshan: Newly identified Sargudhasht-i Sayyidna Manuscripts and their Background, Miklos Sarközy, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK9. 'Ahd-i Sayyidna, a Newly Discovered Treatise on the Consolidation of the Nizari Da'wa in Alamut, Karim Javan, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK10. The Discovery, Description and Publication of the Manuscripts of Two Major Niazari Ismaili Texts from the Alamut Period: The Haft Bab and the Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat of Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib, S. J. Badakhchani, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSECTION V: COMMUNAL SCRIPT, SCRIBAL ELITE, AND SATPANTH MANUSCRIPT CULTURE11. Khwajah Sindhi (Khojki): Its Name, Manuscripts and Origin, Shafique N. Virani, University of Toronto, Canada12. A Forgotten Voice: The Agency of Scribal and Literate Elite and the Satpanth Manuscript Culture, Wafi A. Momin, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSETION VI: IDENTITY, CULTURAL INTERACTIONS, AND ESOTERIC INTERPREATION AMONG CENTRAL ASIAN ISMAILI COMMUNITIES13. Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in the Light of the Ni'mat Allahi Manuscripts in the Holdings of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK14. Poems of Allegiance: Shah Diya-i-i Shughnani's Salam-nama, Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK15. The Sahifat al-nazirin: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text, Daniel Beben, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK16. The Seven Pillars of the Shari'a and the Question of Authority in the Central Asian Ismaili Manuscripts: An Ismaili Esoteric Discourse, Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSECTION VII: APPROACHING TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH QUR'ANIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HOLOGRAPH AUTOGRAPH COPIES17. Writing the Qur'an between the Lines: Preliminary Remarks on Marginalia in the Qur'an Manuscripts held by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Asma Hilali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK18. The Making of a Holograph: Authorial Arabic Manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Walid Ghali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKList of illustrationsIndex

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Through the variety of subjects covered, the up-to-dateness of their content, and the formal quality of the book as a whole, there is no doubt that this open access and richly illustrated volume ... will provide an excellent basis for future research not only in the field of Ismaili studies stricto sensu, but also in Islamic studies more generally. * Bulletin of the School of African and Oriental Studies *This invaluable volume will be of immense value and interest to scholars working primarily in the field of manuscript studies, Ismaili studies and cultural studies of the Islamic world. * The Muslim World Book Review *

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Examines the content and connections of Arabic, Persian and Indic-language manuscripts that were nurtured by Ismaili communities throughout history

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Examines the content and connections of Arabic, Persian and Indic-language manuscripts that were nurtured by Ismaili communities throughout history

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Deals with manuscript traditions cultivated by the Ismaili communities from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and other regions

Details ISBN0755645383 Year 2022 ISBN-10 0755645383 ISBN-13 9780755645381 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-06-02 UK Release Date 2022-06-02 Imprint I.B. Tauris Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-06-02 Language English Pages 504 Subtitle Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond Edited by Wafi A. Momin Illustrations 25 images Author Wafi A. Momin Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 297.20422 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-07-27 We've got this

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