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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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Islamic Africa
Année: 2016, Volume: 7, Numéro: 1, Pages: 4-18 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Wālī
B Ṣuġra B Authority B ‘ulamā’ B Oral B Taqlîd B Literacy B Knowledge |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Islamic Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00701002 |