عنوان

The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Swahili People

شماره

LA111036

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Swahili People

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

John Mugane

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper takes a look at the odyssey of the Arabic script in Swahili hands. It shows how the distinction between the Arabic script and Swahili ʿAjamī constitutes a hyphen whose meaning is saturated with the story of Swahili society and language. The hyphen represents a non-trivial record of Swahili agency as innovative users, authors, transcribers, translators, and interpreters of the Arabic script enlarged its use and versatility as a viable medium to write Swahili, a Bantu language. The paper identifies as resilience Swahili efforts to sustain the use of the unmodified Arabic script alongside the enriched one. The Swahili wrote because they were compelled to write, everyone in their dialect, with content not divorced from script. The Swahili ʿAjamī record is a bonafide source and terminus of Africa's knowledge. This paper takes a look at the odyssey of the Arabic script in Swahili hands. It shows how the distinction between the Arabic script and Swahili ʿAjamī constitutes a hyphen whose meaning is saturated with the story of Swahili society and language. The hyphen represents a non-trivial record of Swahili agency as innovative users, authors, transcribers, translators, and interpreters of the Arabic script enlarged its use and versatility as a viable medium to write Swahili, a Bantu language. The paper identifies as resilience Swahili efforts to sustain the use of the unmodified Arabic script alongside the enriched one. The Swahili wrote because they were compelled to write, everyone in their dialect, with content not divorced from script. The Swahili ʿAjamī record is a bonafide source and terminus of Africa's knowledge.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

193-216

عنوان

Islamic Africa

شماره جلد

8/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2154-0993

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Africa's sources of knowledge

اصطلاح موضوعی

ʿAjamī script

اصطلاح موضوعی

enrichment

اصطلاح موضوعی

innovation

اصطلاح موضوعی

literary tradition

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Swahili civilization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Tendi

اصطلاح موضوعی

translation

اصطلاح موضوعی

transliteration

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

John Mugane

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/21540993-00801005

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y