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This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.

Manuscripts, Arabic --- History. --- India

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"This volume comprises a selection of papers delivered at the symposium "The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur'anic Manuscripts" held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery during 1-3 December 2016 and organized in conjunction with the exhibition "The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts." Speakers investigated the materiality of luxury Qur'ans, from the lavish use of costly materials such as gold and parchment, the development of special scripts and intricate illuminated designs to the meticulously tooled bindings. In addition to examining the physical features of Qur'anic volumes, the authors examine the manuscripts in their artistic, historic, and religious contexts to understand more fully the transformation of these works into potent symbols of piety, political and religious authority, and into instruments of legitimacy. Over the centuries, many of the Qur'ans were offered as diplomatic gifts or taken as booty and endowed to mosques, tombs, and other religious complexes to perpetuate and transmit their exceptional baraka (divine blessing). As Qur'ans changed ownership, they also acquired a complex and layered after-life, which has further enriched their identity well into the present"--

Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts --- Islam --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- History. --- Manuscripts --- History. --- History. --- Qurʼan --- Qurʼan --- Manuscripts --- History. --- Illustrations.

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In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the "closed transmission" will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given.The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers, editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.

Arabic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Arabic --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Transmission of texts --- History and criticism --- Criticism, Textual. --- History and criticism. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Arabic manuscripts --- Arabic didactic poetry --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Arabic literature --- Variance. --- didactic poetry. --- orality and writing.

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Unlike other itineraries, Jacqueline Sublet's one is perfectly clear. History guides him throughout, but not just any. From the outset, the search for the document is essential there, as an essential means of access to knowledge of various circles: merchants, jurists, civil servants foremost among whom Ibn al-Suqāʿī, a major witness to the interest shown by Jacqueline Sublet in the Mamluk era. Biography and historiography go very quickly, in this itinerary, to be based on a certainty: the history by the document cannot ignore the search for the name, this name which holds the very secret of beings and things. Without forbidding a few excursions, among others to the gardens of Damascus or to the borders of the Muslim empire, Jacqueline Sublet always returns to this name which fascinates her, for what it reveals and hides at the same time. André Miquel (extract from the preface)These Mélanges bring together 24 articles by researchers from various backgrounds who have been in contact with Jacqueline Sublet throughout her career. The contributions revolve around the unifying theme of “Onomastics and documents in Islamic lands”.

Onomastics --- Arabic language --- Names, Personal --- Islamic literature, Arabic --- Arabic literature --- Names, Arabic. --- Manuscripts, Arabic. --- Arabic philology. --- Etymology --- Names. --- Islamic. --- History and criticism. --- Arabic. --- Arabic manuscripts --- Arabic names --- Arabic personal names --- Islamic personal names --- Muslim personal names --- Names --- Onomatology --- Language and languages --- Onomasiology --- historiographie --- documents arabes légaux --- bibliothèques islamiques --- les Mille et Une Nuits --- Al-Andalus --- époque mamelouke --- onomastique --- islam médiéval --- histoire médiévale --- manuscrits arabes --- nom propre --- magie islamique --- grammaire arabe --- littérature arabe