The West and the Arabian Manuscripts: Reading of an Experience
Allaoua Amara, Faculty of Art and Human Sciences,Prince Abd-Alqader University, Constantine, Algeria.
Abstract
The west knew the Arabian manuscripts since the military and commercial expansion by the end of the 10th century. The getting hold of these manuscripts allowed the Westerns to constitute the very first collections of Arabian manuscripts in West from the 16th century. The Arabian manuscript constituted the most important tool to understand and comprehend the Islam. However from the 19th century, the setting up of catalogs began, in order to localize manuscripts in the world; followed of the diffusion of the codicology. The history of texts of after several manuscripts and the survey of writing materials came to tie up the works of the 20th century.