What is it about?
The gathering, digitization and analysis of manuscripts written in Arabic in several countries of the Horn of Africa has revealed the presence of different types of texts composed by Andalusis and Maghrebis from the 12th to the 15th centuries, proving the ongoing influence of certain works and their spread along time and space. In this chapter I analyze the genres of those texts and possible ways of transmission.
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Why is it important?
It is a pioneering contribution, not only in the field of Islam in sub-saharan Africa, but also especifically in the study of Arabization and Islamization of this geographical area, and at the same time it fits a recently initiated interest research on the influence of the intellectual production of the premodern Islamic West in other areas of the Islamic world
Perspectives
As no many people work in related research fields, since the topic os Arabic and Islamic studies has been largely overlooked, this paper will not receive much attention, but its importance has to do precisely with the fact that the topic is almost unexplored
Dr Adday Hernandez
CSIC - Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC)
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This page is a summary of: Traces of the Medieval Islamic West in Modern East Africa: Andalusi and Maghribi Works in the Horn of Africa, January 2021, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110713305-016.
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