Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali Epigraphy, Chronicles, and Songhay-Tuareg History |
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| Author:
| de Moraes Farias, P. F. |
| Series title: | Fontes Historiae Africanae Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-726222-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $199.00 |
Book Description:
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This analytical edition makes available a unique corpus of primary-source material and demonstrates its wide implications for African and Arabic studies.Through Arabic transciptions, English translations, line-drawing reconstructions, and plate illustrations, the volume catalogues the large number of eleventh-fifteenth century Arabic-Islamic inscriptions from the Republic of Mali - including the earliest datable writing from West Africa. Dr Moraes Farias uses thisrich resource to...
More DescriptionThis analytical edition makes available a unique corpus of primary-source material and demonstrates its wide implications for African and Arabic studies.Through Arabic transciptions, English translations, line-drawing reconstructions, and plate illustrations, the volume catalogues the large number of eleventh-fifteenth century Arabic-Islamic inscriptions from the Republic of Mali - including the earliest datable writing from West Africa. Dr Moraes Farias uses thisrich resource to reinterpret West African chronicles and oral traditions, and to demonstrate that the Tuareg and Songhay, peoples divided by civil war in the 1990s, share a composite history. This volume also discusses a wide range of linguistic and literary issues, and contributes to current debatesabout the nature of epigraphic evidence.