Field Notes on the Arabic Literature of the Western Sudan
- 1 April 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Vol. 88 (1-2) , 78-80
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00114480
Abstract
In a previous article in this journal the writer gave an account of the forming in the Library of the University College, Ibadan, of a collection of manuscripts representative of the indigenous Arabic literature of the Western Sudan, and from this collection and other sources compiled a list of the Arabic writings of Shehu Usumanu ḍan Fodio, the Reformer, founder of the Fulani empire. From the same sources it has been possible to list by title most of the Arabic writings of Usumanu's brother, Waziri Abdullahi ḍan Fodio.Keywords
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