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Early Nigerian Qur'anic Manuscripts

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.