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...
| Published in: | Islamic Africa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Islamic Africa
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| 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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| Summary: | 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 concern was not a translation from one language to the other, but the translation of an oral work into a written text. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-0993 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islamic Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00701002 |