Islamic Manuscript Collections in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Muslims introduced literary culture and manuscript collection in the mosques after the introduction of Islam in the seventh century. Books stored and preserved in a bookshelves known as taqet (Arabic, tāqat, shelf). This clearly shows African endogenous culture of preserving textual materi...

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Main Author: Kawo, Hassen Muhammad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Islamic Africa
Year: 2015, Volume: 6, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 192-200
Further subjects:B Manuscript collection
B Dirre Shaykh Hussein
B Ajami
B Literary heritage
B Arabic
B Taqet (book shelve), Harar
B Ethiopia
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