The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System - Couverture rigide

 
9789004256798: The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System
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ISBN 10 : 9004256792 ISBN 13 : 9789004256798
Editeur : Brill, 2014

Synopsis

The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.

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À propos de l?auteur

Meikal Mumin, M.A. (2009) Universität zu Köln, wrote his MA thesis on Arabic script in Africa and is currently a PhD candidate at Universität zu Köln and Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale' working on a language documentation of Chimiini.

Kees Versteegh (Ph.D., 1977) is emeritus Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Nijmegen. He has published on the history of Arabic and the Arabic grammatical tradition, and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2006-2009).

With contributions from Bana M. S. Banafunzi, Dmitry Bondarev, Anneke Breedveld, Peter T. Daniels, Nikolay Dobronravin, Gérard Dumestre, Ramada Elghamis, Muhammed Haron, Marie-Ève Humery, Maarten Kossmann, Xavier Luffin, Meikal Mumin, Lameen Souag, Kees Versteegh, Alessandra Vianello, Clarissa Vierke, Valentin Vydrin, Andy Warren-Rothlin.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004256792
ISBN 13 
9789004256798
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
420
Éditeur
Mumin Meikal, Versteegh Kees
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Personne responsable
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