Living Documents, Dying Archives: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Medieval Arabic Archives
Tamer El-Leithy
Based on an analysis of several collections Medieval Arabic documents, this paper argues for the study “archiving practices”, which selectively use documents as parts wider social strategies group formation and reproduction. This method also allows us to uncover temporality (life-cycle) archives, including their dispersal, cycles obsolescence recycling; tactics erasure, deliberate destruction.
Al-qantara