Arabic literature of Africa. Volume IV, Writings of Western Sudanic Africa [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunwick, J.O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Arabic--Africa--Catalogs.

Local Subjects:

Manuscripts, Arabic--Africa--Catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (839 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, 2003.

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.

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 Azawād; 5. Central Mali in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 6. Senegambia I: The Niassene Tijānī Tradition

7. Senegambia II: Other Tijānī Writers8. Senegambia III: Writers of the Murīd Tarīqa; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-46392-9

9786610463923

1-4237-1095-9

90-474-0132-8

OCLC:

437160855