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Ibadi Muslims of North Africa

by Paul M. Love, Jr

Examining the Ibadi Muslims of North Africa, this book traces the history of Arabic texts to tell the story of how people and their networks build religious traditions. Combining the study of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools, it explains how this religious community created and maintained a tradition over nearly a millennium.

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Publisher Description

The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis, Paul M. Love, Jr takes readers on a journey across the Maghrib and beyond as he traces the paths of a group of manuscripts and the Ibadi scholars who used them. Ibadi scholars of the Middle Period (eleventh–sixteenth century) wrote a series of collective biographies (prosopographies), which together constructed a cumulative tradition that connected Ibadi Muslims from across time and space, bringing them together into a 'written network'. From the Mzab valley in Algeria to the island of Jerba in Tunisia, from the Jebel Nafusa in Libya to the bustling metropolis of early-modern Cairo, this book shows how people and books worked in tandem to construct and maintain an Ibadi Muslim tradition in the Maghrib.

Author Biography

Paul M. Love, Jr is Assistant Professor of North African, Middle Eastern, and Islamic history at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is a former Fulbright scholar, and received three prestigious Critical Language Scholarships from the United States Department of State. His research has been funded by the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Social Sciences Research Council, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Table of Contents

Prologue. Tunis, 2014; Introduction: mobilizing with manuscripts; 1. Ibadi communities in the Maghrib; 2. Writing a network, constructing a tradition; 3. Sharpening the boundaries of community; 4. Formalizing the network; 5. Paper and people in Northern Africa; 6. Retroactive networking; 7. The end of a tradition; 8. Orbits; 9. Ibadi manuscript culture; Conclusion: (re)inventing an Ibadi tradition; Appendix: extant manuscript copies of the Ibadi prosopographies.

Review

'Using network analysis coupled to a scholarly examination of extant manuscripts, Love's study opens new perspectives on the developing traditions of prosopography among the dispersed Ibadi communities of the Maghrib. It would make a stimulating model for examining the reasons behind a generally dissimilar development in Oman.' John C. Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
'Love's work achieves something rare: it sheds new light on long familiar North African Ib prosopographical works by focusing on the written networks of scholars implied in their pages, as well as on the lives of the manuscripts. He significantly enriches our knowledge of how Ibs used books to create tradition and community.' Adam Gaiser, The Florida State University
'Love's study of the biographical tradition of the Ibadi communities of North Africa from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, copied and recopied in manuscript and latterly in printed form down to the present day, is a highly original and perceptive analysis of the way in which the tradition has developed and circulated among those communities over the past thousand years, serving to maintain their social cohesion and religious identity in the face of the tide of history. As a contribution not only to the study of the Ibadis, but to the history of Islam itself, it cannot be too highly recommended.' Michael Brett, Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa, SOAS

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'Using network analysis coupled to a scholarly examination of extant manuscripts, Love's study opens new perspectives on the developing traditions of prosopography among the dispersed Ibadi communities of the Maghrib. It would make a stimulating model for examining the reasons behind a generally dissimilar development in Oman.' John C. Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

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Combining manuscript analysis with digital tools to show how people and books worked together to build a religious tradition in North Africa.

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Examining the Ibadi Muslims of North Africa, this book traces the history of Arabic texts to tell the story of how people and their networks build religious traditions. Combining the study of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools, it explains how this religious community created and maintained a tradition over nearly a millennium.

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Examining the Ibadi Muslims of North Africa, this book traces the history of Arabic texts to tell the story of how people and their networks build religious traditions. Combining the study of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools, it explains how this religious community created and maintained a tradition over nearly a millennium.

Details ISBN1108472508 ISBN-10 1108472508 ISBN-13 9781108472500 Format Hardcover Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2018 Media Book Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 297.8330961 Pages 228 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Maps; 16 Halftones, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white Publication Date 2018-09-27 Short Title Ibadi Muslims of North Africa Language English UK Release Date 2018-09-27 AU Release Date 2018-09-27 NZ Release Date 2018-09-27 Author Paul M. Love, Jr Series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization Alternative 9781108459013 Audience Professional & Vocational

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • ISBN-13: 9781108472500
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition
  • Item Height: 235mm
  • Author: Paul M. Love, Jr
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Topic: Archaeology, Islam, History
  • Item Width: 157mm
  • Item Weight: 500 g
  • Number of Pages: 228 Pages

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