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100	1		_aAkkerman, Olly _4auth
245	1	0	_aA Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books _bArabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia
260			_bEdinburgh University Press _c2023
520			_aThis book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi’i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.
536			_aKnowledge Unlatched
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aИстория культуры _92416
653			_aСеверной Африка
653			_aЕгипет
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