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Title: | Fulfulde Literature in Arabic Script |
Author: | Robinson, David |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 9 |
Pages: | 251-261 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mali |
Subjects: | jihads Fulfulde language history Segu polity oral poetry (form) Literature, Mass Media and the Press Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171608 |
Abstract: | The author wishes to show both the importance and the problems of exploiting Fulfulde ajamiyya literature ('non-Arabic' Fulfulde literature written with the use of the Arabic alphabet) in the context of the jihad of al-hajj Umar of the mid-nineteenth century and the state which his son Amadu Seku ran from Segu. To achieve this the author examines a narrative poem taken from the library and archives of Segu but housed since the 1890s at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris under the title Fonds Archinard. The author hopes to draw attention to the historical circumstances in which the ajamiyya conventions for Fulfulde were developed and maintained in Futa Jalon and then extended to the Umarian entourage, and to the necessity for textual and contextual critisism of written documents based on an understanding of the close relationship between oral and written media and the continual revision that characterize a received tradition. Notes, tab. |