Title Mobile manuscripts : Arabic learning across the early modern western Indian Ocean / Christopher D. Bahl, Durham University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025 ©2025

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cambridge oceanic histories Cambridge oceanic histories. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Dates, Places, and Transliterations -- Introduction -- Histories of Circulation -- Arabic Textual Practices as Arabic Learning -- Of Networks and Entanglements -- Setting Sail: Historiographies of Maritime Connections -- Empirical Troves: A Corpus of Manuscripts Assembled across Continents -- Plan of the Book -- 1 The Prosopographical World of Maritime Mobilities The Emergence of a Transoceanic World of Arabic Learning: The Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries -- Arabic Learning across the Sixteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean -- Entangling Arabic and Persian Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean -- Perspectives on Arabic Learning in Seventeenth-Century South Asia -- 2 The Royal Library of Bijapur: The Emergence of a Textual Entrepôt -- The Royal Library of Bijapur: Sultans and Librarians -- A Manuscript Culture of Gift-Reception -- The Islamicate Library: Transactions of Scholarly Professionals The Shrine Library as a Textual Entrepôt -- Bijapur's Sufis and Local Forms of Book Circulation -- Conclusion -- 3 Arabic Philology in Early Modern South Asia -- Seventeenth-Century 'Paper Revolutions' and the Spread of Arabic Philological Texts -- From 'Definitive Texts' to Their Multiple Audiences -- Scribes: The Proliferators of Arabic Manuscripts -- The Social Field of Book Exchanges -- 'Paratexts of Social Silence' -- Manuscripts as 'Commonplace Notebooks' -- Conclusion -- 4 Mobile Arabic Learning from Egypt to the Deccan -- The Patchwork Quilt of Transoceanic Patronage Networks A Tale of Two Commentaries: Textual Mobility through Narrative Strategies -- Arabic Scholarship on the Move: Changing Frameworks of Textual Transmission -- Conclusion -- 5 From the Deccan to Istanbul: A Transoceanic Community of Readers -- Early Modern Courts and the Preservation of al-Damāmīnī's Texts -- Transregional Scholarly Transmission -- Transregional Text Transmission -- Reading Strategies in a Transoceanic Scholarly Field -- New Text-Based Reading Practices and Readers -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean World -- Appendix Summary "In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, locating South Asia as a key node of connection"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2025) Subject Manuscripts, Arabic -- South Asia -- History Transmission of texts -- South Asia -- History Learning and scholarship -- South Asia -- History Islamic learning and scholarship -- History South Asia -- Intellectual life -- History South Asia -- Intellectual life Form Electronic book LC no. 2024033635 ISBN 9781009359719 1009359711

Other Titles Arabic learning across the early modern western Indian Ocean

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