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Author : John O. Hunwick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109384
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The writings of the Muslim peoples of northeastern Africa written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O. Hunwick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004104945
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Arabic Literature of Africa written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria, including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings.
Author : John O. Hunwick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004124448
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4 written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria, including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings.
Author : John O. Hunwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004094505
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Arabic Literature of Africa: fasc. A. The writings of the Muslim peoples of Northeastern Africa written by John O. Hunwick and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rami van der Molen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741487X
Total Pages : 1960 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book An Analytical Concordance of the Verb, the Negation and the Syntax in Egyptian Coffin Texts (2 vols) written by Rami van der Molen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the long-awaited concordance of the Egyptian coffin texts. It forms the sequel to A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts by the same author. In 1961 A. de Buck published his important seven-volume corpus Egyptian Coffin Texts. The importance of these texts is considerable for a variety of reasons; they are one of the most important literary texts of classical Egypt; the many variants greatly enlarge our understanding of grammar and linguistic structures; the coffin texts are magical texts, the effectiveness of which depended upon the exact reproductions of the original spells. In this concordance the various readings of each lemma are provided in transliteration into the Latin alphabet, which makes the concordance easily accessible for those unable to read hieroglyphs. The material is divided into the morphological categories of the verb; within each category the verbs are treated in alphabetical order.
Author : Reuven Snir
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474420524
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Reuven Snir and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian formalism and its theoretical legacy, this framework offers flexible, transparent, and unbiased tools to understand the relevant contexts within the literary system. The aim is to enhance our understanding of Arabic literature, throw light on areas of literary production that traditionally have been neglected, and stimulate others to take up the fascinating challenge of mapping out and exploring them.
Author : Fallou Ngom
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030457591
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa written by Fallou Ngom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jihād movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.
Author : Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351391291
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Saints and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam written by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious figures, as well as the socio-historical contexts in which sainthood operates, in order to better understand the role of saints in monotheistic religions. Using comparative religious and anthropological approaches, an international panel of contributors guides the reader through three main concerns. They describe and illuminate the ways in which sanctity is often configured. In addition, the diverse cultural manifestations of the cult of the saints are examined and analysed. Finally, the various religious, social, and political functions that saints came to play in numerous societies are compared and contrasted. This ambitious study covers sanctity from the Middle Ages until the contemporary period, and has a geographical scope that includes Europe, Central Asia, North Africa, the Americas, and the Asian Pacific. As such, it will be of use to scholars of the history of religions, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue, as well as students of sainthood and hagiography.
Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Encyclopedia of Africa written by John Middleton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from Dakar to Hydrology on the history, geography, culture, religion and ideologies, wars, and economy of the African nations; and includes essays and photographs.
Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110381486
Total Pages : 2857 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction written by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 2857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.
Author : Alessandro Gori
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498217605
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book A Handlist of the Manuscripts in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Volume Two written by Alessandro Gori and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a handlist of the Islamic codices hosted in the library of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Theirs is one of the most important collections of Islamic manuscripts in the horn of Africa. Almost totally unexplored, the collection contains many valuable examples of the rich and variegated manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Muslims. Each entry describes the main physical features and the most important texts contained in the codex. The catalogue includes a detailed analysis of a selection of watermarked papers and bindings--richly illustrated with pictures from the manuscripts. An extensive appendix contains over eighty plates of paleographical samples of dated manuscripts. Several indices (titles of the works, personal and place names, etc.) facilitate the usage of the handlist for further research.
Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007976
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Muslim Societies in Africa written by Roman Loimeier and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Ousmane Kane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674050827
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Beyond Timbuktu written by Ousmane Kane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Author : Shamil Jeppie
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of Timbuktu written by Shamil Jeppie and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu." 15th-century Malian proverb. In a joint project between South Africa and Mali, a library to preserve more than 200 000 Arabic and West African manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries is currently under construction. It is the first official cultural project of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), the socio-economic development plan of the African Union, and when the library is built, the cultural role of Timbuktu will be revived, as it becomes the safehaven for the treasured manuscripts. The manuscripts prove that Africa had a rich legacy of written history, long before western colonisers set foot on the continent. This volume, authored by leading international scholars, begins to sketch the 'meaning' of Timbuktu within the context of the intellectual history of West Africa, in particular, and of the African continent, in general. The book covers four broad areas: Part I provides an introduction to the region; outlines what archaeology can tell us of its history, examines the paper and various calligraphic styles used in the manuscripts; and explains how ancient institutions of scholarship functioned. Part II begins to analyse what the manuscripts can tell us of African history. Part III offers insight into the lives and works of just a few of the many scholars who achieved renown in the region and beyond. Part IV provides a glimpse into Timbuktu's libraries and private collections. Part V looks at the written legacy of the eastern half of Africa, which like that of the western region, is often ignored. A fascinating read for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of the aura of mystique and legend that surrounds Timbuktu. The Meanings of Timbuktu strives to contextualise and clarify the importance of efforts to preserve Timbuktu's manuscripts for Mali, for Africa and for the intellectual world."--Abstract
Author : Andrea Brigaglia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110541645
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Arts and Crafts of Literacy written by Andrea Brigaglia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the manuscripts. This book advances on the contrary a holistic approach to the study of these manuscripts and gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption. The originality of this book is found in its methodological approach as well as its comparative geographic focus, presenting studies on a continental scale, including regions formerly neglected by existing scholarship, provides a unique opportunity to expand our still scanty knowledge of the different manuscript cultures that the African continent has developed and that often can still be considered as living traditions.
Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740620
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book From Dust to Digital written by Maja Kominko and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.
Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195382072
Total Pages : 3382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
