Olly Akkerman

Olly Akkerman

Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
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Olly Akkerman (Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) is a specialist on Arabic manuscripts and Shi'i Islam. Her research examines the social life of manuscript repositories, and other forms of material culture among the Bohras in South Asia and the larger Western Indian Ocean. Her publications include The Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology: a Study in Social Codicology and a monograph: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books in Gujarat. Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia (EUP). 

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