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Title Arabic literature of Africa. Volume IV, Writings of Western Sudanic Africa / compiled by John O. Hunwick ; with the assistance of Ousmane Kane [and others]
Published Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 0169-9423 ; 13. Bd. = Handbook of oriental studies. The Near and Middle East
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 13. Bd.
Contents CONTENTS; Arabic Literature of Africa: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Transliteration, Dates and Proper Names; Abbreviations; Short Titles of Works frequently referred to; General Works of Reference, Journals, and Catalogues; Writings of Western Sudanic Africa: an Overview; 1. The Middle Niger to 1800; 2. The Middle Niger in the 19th-20th centuries; 3. The Saharan Fringes of Mali I: The Kunta; 4. The Saharan Fringes of Mali II: Other Writers of Azawad; 5. Central Mali in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 6. Senegambia I: The Niassene Tijani Tradition
7. Senegambia II: Other Tijani Writers8. Senegambia III: Writers of the Murid Tariqa; 9. Other Writers of the Senegambian Region; 10. Writers of Guinea; 11. Writers of Niger; 12. Writers of the Greater Voltaic Region; 13. Anonymous Chronicles, King-Lists and Historical Fragments chiefly of Mali and Niger; APPENDIX:; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES; INDICES
Summary This volume of Arabic literature of Africa deals with the scholarly and literary production of authors from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Niger, and Ghana, from earliest times to 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa -- Catalogs
Arabic literature -- Africa -- Bio-bibliography
REFERENCE.
Arabic literature
Civilization -- Manuscripts
Civilization -- Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic
SUBJECT Africa -- Civilization -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs
Africa -- Civilization -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
Subject Africa
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Bio-bibliography
Catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Kane, Ousmane.
Hunwick, John O.
ISBN 1423710959
9781423710950
9789047401322
9047401328
1280463929
9781280463921
9786610463923
6610463921
Other Titles Writings of Western Sudanic Africa