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Pervasive throughout intellectual, museological and popular representations alike, West African Islam is habitually read as too provincial and far removed from Islam's heartland with its sophisticated metropolitan centers, imperial courts, and famed seats of learning (Bravmann, …

The following study traces the production and history of the talismanic scroll as a medium through a Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk historical periods. My dissertation understands the protocol of manufacturing and utilizing talismanic scrolls. The dissertation is a study of the Qu…