{"id":145,"date":"2013-08-13T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2013\/11\/08\/re-discovering-the-de-gironcourt-collection-of-west-african-arabic-manuscripts\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:21:17","slug":"re-discovering-the-de-gironcourt-collection-of-west-african-arabic-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/workshops-seminars\/re-discovering-the-de-gironcourt-collection-of-west-african-arabic-manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-discovering the de Gironcourt collection of West African Arabic manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxHGT_1Ad00\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>Book History Seminars<br \/>\n14 August 2013<\/h4>\n<p><strong>14:00\u00a0 &#8211; IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mauro Nobili<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a mission in the French Soudan dated 1911-12, the <em>ing\u00e9gnieur-agronome<\/em> George de Gironcourt collected a number of manuscripts written in the Arabic language. Eventually these manuscripts were donated at the Institut de France in Paris. The de Gironcourt collection has been neglected by the scholars of West Africa and still remains an untouched repository of very relevant works on African history and culture. The presentation, based on the forthcoming catalogue of the de Gironcourt manuscript, will present the explorer&#8217;s mission and the collection which resulted from it, also providing a window on the manuscript culture of the Niger Bend as well as a picture of the area during the colonial period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mauro Nobili<\/strong>\u00a0is a specialist in West African history and Arabic manuscripts. He is a post-doctoral fellow affiliated to HUMA (UCT) within the\u00a0Tombouctou Manuscripts Project\u00a0as well as to the Department of Religious Studies.\u00a0His current research focuses on the Arabic script styles displayed by West African manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book History Seminars 14 August 2013 14:00\u00a0 &#8211; IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein &nbsp; Mauro Nobili University of Cape Town During a mission in the French Soudan dated 1911-12, the ing\u00e9gnieur-agronome George de Gironcourt collected a number of manuscripts written in the Arabic language. Eventually these manuscripts were donated at the Institut de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}