Subject Areas
Historical/Religious context
Background information and recent updates on the history of Kanem-Borno and development of Qur’anic/Islamic studies in this ancient (West) African State.
Palaeography
Study of the handwriting, script styles, spelling conventions, and physical condition of the writing as a basis for historical and linguistic analysis.
Linguistic description
Analysis of the phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary of the archaic Kanuri/Kanembu in the corpus.
