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Series
Islamic history and civilization volume Volume 111
Publisher
BRILL
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Islamic manuscripts and books volume Volume 13/1
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Islamic manuscripts and books volume Volume 8
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The main sequence is comprised of approximately 200 entries dealing with almost all aspects of Arabic manuscript studies (codicology and paleography); includes appendices covering abbreviations, letterforms, sūrah-headings, major reference works, and a guide to the description of manuscripts, as well as charts of major historical periods and dynasties.
9) Documentary Arabic private and business letters on papyrus: form and function, content and context
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Islamic manuscripts and books volume Volume 12
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
13) The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
Author
Series
Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung volume Bd. 42
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable....
