ʿAjamization of Islam in Africa

Ngom, Fallou; Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim

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“…Their original works were composed in languages other than Arabic, such as Urdu, Pashto, Persian, and Turkish. Moreover, their birth place was outside the Arabian peninsula or the core Arab regions of the Nile-to-Oxus (Bouhsane no date; Ngom & Kurfi 2017).…”

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Religion, Education, Science and Technology towards a More Inclusive and Sustainable Future

Rahiem

2024

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This book addresses topics relating to religion, education, science, and technology, and explore their role in developing a more inclusive and sustainable future. With discussions viewed through the lenses of religious and Islamic studies, education, psychology, social science, economics, and natural science, the book is interdisciplinary. It also brings together a range of diverse work by academics around the world including Indonesia, Malaysia, the United States, Australia, Kenya, Germany, and the Philippines.The papers are derived from the 5th International Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies (ICIIS 2022), a prestigious event designed to provide a global forum for academicians, researchers, practitioners, and students to present their research findings to global experts. ICIIS was hosted by (State

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Religion, Education, Science and Technology towards a More Inclusive and Sustainable Future

Rahiem

2024

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“…ʿ Ajamī is the Arabic term for non‐Arabic, or foreign, and is also used to refer to non‐Arabic languages and literatures that are written with the modified Arabic script. There have been numerous ʿAjamī traditions across Africa for centuries (Boyd & Mack, ; Hassane, ; Jawondo, ; Luffin, ; McLaughlin, forthcoming; Mumin & Versteegh, ; Ngom, ; Ngom, ; Ngom & Kurfi, ; Salvaing, ; Sanni, ; Tamari & Bondarev, ). Just like the Roman alphabet was modified to write many European and non‐European languages and traveled around the world through Christianity, so too the Arabic script was enriched to write numerous languages in the Muslim world.…”

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Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance

Ngom

Castro

2019

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This article focuses on the digital preservation of African sources written in Mandinka ʿAjamī, i.e., the enriched form of the Arabic script used to write the Mandinka language for centuries. ʿAjamī writing has been utilized to document intellectual traditions, histories, belief systems, and cultures of non‐Arab Muslims around the world. ʿAjamī texts have played critical roles in the spread of Islam in Africa and continue to be used for both religious and nonreligious writings. However, African ʿAjamī texts such as those of the Mandinka people of Casamance in southern Senegal are not well known beyond local communities. ʿAjamī texts in Mandinka and other Mande languages are among the least documented. Only a few Mande ʿAjamī texts are available to scholars. Thanks to the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), Africa's rich written heritage in ʿAjamī and other scripts previously unavailable to academics is being preserved and made universally accessible.

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