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Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral
yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made
by others, owners form their albums as representations of their
selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume’s
contributors – who come from musicology, European history,
English literary studies, and Islamic art history – explore a set
of these challenging manuscripts while addressing questions of
manuscript studies through their respective disciplinary lenses.
The albums under investigation range from Early Modern
Stammbücher, or alba amicorum, to albums assembled jointly by
nineteenth-century cultural elites, and from muraqqaʿs of the
Persianate world to English and North American friendship albums,
including some kept by women. This book is the first contribution
to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their
materiality and analysing the practices of all those involved in
making and using them. Moreover, the collection introduces this
hard-to-grasp type of written artefact to the field of
cross-disciplinary manuscript studies and suggests albums as a
touchstone for manuscriptological theories and terminologies.
This volume examines transmission processes of Alevi religious
knowledge and ritual practice in the last decades. It assembles
contributions by researchers from Germany, Great Britain, and
Turkey. They focus on the question how religious knowledge and
ritual practice are constantly (re-)negotiated and (re-)distributed
in Alevism and, as a comparison, in Yezidism. These processes are
discussed in regard to the conditions of social and cultural
change, transnational migration, and globalised communication. In
doing so, the contributions to this volume follow different
approaches and discuss fundamental methodological issues.
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