Sahara East and West: A New Academic Approach to Literary Sources
A conference organized within the framework of the project "The Islamic literary tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new academic network", supported by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
Sub-Saharan Africa boasts a long and variegated written heritage in both Arabic and local languages. Scholars in the Islamic literary traditions of different Western and Eastern African countries meet to discuss in a comparative perspective the similiarities and differences, the difficulties and challenges of their respective research fields.
Programme
09:00 Alessandro Gori (University of Copenhagen)
The Islamic literary tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa: a New Academic Network
09:30 Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town)
The making of a Timbuktu book collector
10:00 Hassen Muhammad Kawo (University of Cape Town)
Peasant intellectuals and manuscript collections in South Eastern Ethiopia:
An overview of Abba Hamido Family Collection
10:30 Michele Petrone (University of Copenhagen)
Tijaniyya networks between Ethiopia and West Africa
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Susana Molins Lliteras (University of Cape Town)
Spain in Timbuktu: the Fondo Kati library
11:45 Adday Hernández López (University of Copenhagen)
Transfer of knowledge in Ethiopia: the case of a šayḫ from Wallo
12:15 Lunch break
13:30 Andrea Brigaglia (University of Cape Town)
The Islamic calligraphic tradition in twentieth-century Nigeria, from scribal
culture to print culture
14:00 Irmeli Perho (University of Copenhagen)
The vagaries of hamza and other orthographic features in the Ethiopian
manuscripts
14:30 Sara Fani (University of Copenhagen)
Scribal practices in Arabic Manuscripts from Ethiopia: regional peculiarities of
graphemes and Their Possible External Models
15:00 Final discussion
For further information please contact Alessandro Gori.