The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa ‎ Ixia Press The early 19th century saw

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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa ‎ Ixia Press The early 19th century sawDuring the last two decades, the (re )discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub Saharan Africa has questioned the long standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the