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22 octobre 2020
- doi: 10.58079/tda5
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Lisa Smith, « Drinking the Ink of Prayer », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tda5
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By Genie Yoo [1] Sometimes historians dream of moments of recognition in the manuscripts they encounter. The act of reading or reciting, writing or copying, can trigger a distant memory, allowing one to draw a line connecting two seemingly unrelated points on the plane of history. I experienced something of this moment as I sat in the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, reading an untitled and undated manuscript of Arabic prayers and their Malay prescriptions. That morning, Mas...