On Writing and Weaving. Muslim Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century Central Sudanic Africa
Why did a seventeenth-century scholar translate a Fulfulde text, that had long served to divulge Islamic theology in West Africa, into literary Arabic, a language that was only understood by people who were already advanced in their studies of the religion? This article explores whether his prime co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-18 |
| Further subjects: | B
Taqlid
B Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Wālī B Ṣuġra B Authority B ‘ulamā’ B Oral B Literacy B Knowledge |
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