The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System

Product Description

The Arabic script in Africa is a collection of sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages other than Arabic, discussing the (ethno-)historical, (socio-)linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of such writing traditions.

Review

"This work is doubtless a useful addition to the literature on world writing systems and promises to offer enlightening insights into the intellectual legacy of Africa."
Amidu Olalekan Sanni in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 78.3 (2015), 669-671.
DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X15000750

About the Author

Meikal Mumin, M.A. (2009) Universität zu Köln, wrote his MA thesis on Arabic script in Africa and is currently a PhD candidate at Universität zu Köln and Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L'Orientale’ working on a language documentation of Chimiini.

Kees Versteegh (Ph.D., 1977) is emeritus Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Nijmegen. He has published on the history of Arabic and the Arabic grammatical tradition, and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2006-2009).

With contributions from Bana M. S. Banafunzi, Dmitry Bondarev, Anneke Breedveld, Peter T. Daniels, Nikolay Dobronravin, Gérard Dumestre, Ramada Elghamis, Muhammed Haron, Marie-Ève Humery, Maarten Kossmann, Xavier Luffin, Meikal Mumin, Lameen Souag, Kees Versteegh, Alessandra Vianello, Clarissa Vierke, Valentin Vydrin, Andy Warren-Rothlin.