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From 12 to 16 September 2021, several members and associates of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures will participate in the online conference ‘Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa‘, jointly organised by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association in partnership with the Bibliotheca’s...

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. Education Materialised , the latest volume in our series ‘ Studies in Manuscript Cultures ’ (SMC), investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices in multiple case...

CSMC congratulates Usman Al-Amin on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation titled Ṣūfī Manuscript Culture in Western Borno: A Critical Analysis of Themes and Contents of 20th Century Works of Nguru Ṣūfī Scholars.

The defense took place on 7 July 2021.