As elsewhere in Africa, 1 the use of Arabic script emerged in coastal northern Mozambique
through contact with Islam. Judging by the number of documents uncovered at the …

This article focuses on the digital preservation of African sources written in Mandinka
ʿAjamī, ie, the enriched form of the Arabic script used to write the Mandinka language for …

This chapter deals with Arabic and ʿ Ajamī manuscripts in sub-Saharan Africa, which
emerged due to the expansion of Islam from the eighth century onward through trade and …

Vowel omission is a common trait of Afroasiatic writing systems. The current article places
this observation on empirically firm footing by showing that, across a large range of cases …

Abstract (EN) This book review discusses Xavier Luffin's “Un autre regard sur l'histoire
congolaise”, a recent collection of documents in Arabic and Swahili from the Congo in …

Instead of the vowels being unrepresented, or only represented by points, as in all Semitic
writing that was first applied to a Semitic language, we have in the cuneatic inscriptions …

Though this chapter retained “Islamic Education” in the subtitle, the author like Farid
Panjwani (2004) and others are of the view that one should replace the phrase with “Muslim …