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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Wafi A. Momin is Head of the Ismaili Special Collections Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK where he also 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, USA. Vorwort Examines the content and connections of Arabic, Persian and Indic-language manuscripts that were nurtured by Ismaili communities throughout history Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on ContributorsTransliteration, Dates, and AbbreviationsIntroduction, Wafi A. Momin, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK Section I: THE SHAPING OF A NEW FIELD 1. Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK 2. Husain Hamdani, Paul Kraus, and a Suitcase Full of Manuscripts, François de Blois, University of Cambridge, UK Section II: RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA', KITAB AL-ZINA, AND THEIR MANUSCRIPT TRADITION 3. The Ikhwan al-Safa ’s Epistles on Logic in Some Manuscripts of the IIS Arabic Collection, Carmela Baffioni, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK 4. The Missing Link? MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ , Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK 5. The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi’s Kitab al-Zina at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Cornelius Berthold, University of Hamburg, Germany Section III: EXPLORING TWO EARLY TAYYIBI WORKS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION 6. 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, UK 7. Textual, Orthographic Variations and Scribes’ Annotations: A Possible Tool for the Transmission An...
