“Corners Conceal Treasures”: Arabic Manuscripts’ Marginalia in Fuuta Jaloo and Fuuta Toro in the Nineteenth Century
So far, studies of West African Arabic manuscripts have paid limited attention to scribes and their social environment. Fuuta Jaloo’s Islamic confederation emerged in the early 1700s as the brainchild of a group of scholars. Thanks to public policies and cultural innovations, its intellectual output...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 70-110 |
Further subjects: | B
Marginalia
B Scribes B Fuuta Jaloo B COLOPHONS B Fuuta Toro B Astronomy |
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