Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:The Arabic Script in Africa

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Date: 05 Feb 2014
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: NEW BOOK:The Arabic Script in Africa

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:16:39
From: Stephanie Paalvast [paalvast at brill.com]
Subject: The Arabic Script in Africa: Mumin, Versteegh (Eds)

Title: The Arabic Script in Africa
Subtitle: Studies in the Use of a Writing System
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.com


Book URL: http://www.brill.com/arabic-script-africa

Editor: Meikal Mumin
Editor: Kees Versteegh

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004256798 Pages: 420 Price: Europe EURO 134
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004256798 Pages: 420 Price: U.S. $ 174

Abstract:

The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present
use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions,
which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for
single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla
of
Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North,
West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami
heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary,
(socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these
previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and
scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems,
literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.

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