The Historic "Core Curriculum" And The Book Market In Islamic West Africa

Hall, Bruce S.; Stewart, C. C.

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004187429.i-424.30

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“…The layout of widely disseminated texts tends to be very similar (sometimes standardised) in format, as is the case with the Quranic manuscripts or didactic poems in manuscript form (Daub 2012(Daub /2013 or copies of al-Nuqāyā analysed by Rudolf Sellheim (Deŕoche 2006, 179, n. 65). The titles of the works represented in the amply spaced manuscripts discussed so far belong with texts which were widely known in West Africa and associated with a 'core curriculum' in Islamic studies in the region, as suggested by Stewart and Hall (2011) on the basis of the frequency of such texts in Sahelian libraries. The noticeable patterning of such features as annotations, layout, work titles, their popularity and relevance for a particular phase of Islamic education gives ground for a (tentative) classification of manuscripts according to their place in the phases of Islamic education.…”

Section: Defining Phases Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Islamic Education and Ample Space Layout in West African Islamic Manuscripts

Bondarev¹,

Brigaglia²,

Nobili³

2017

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy

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There is a distinctive type of manuscripts across the whole of West Africa characterised by ample space between the lines. This codicological feature seems to point to teaching practices wherein extra space is planned for annotations. This article attempts to draw a correlation between this specific layout and the content of the manuscripts, thus demonstrating that practices of Islamic education can be deduced from analysis of manuscript production. Following Introduction, section 2 discusses ample space layout relation to annotations in the Borno Quran manuscripts; section 3 focuses on the same features in manuscripts from Borno, other than Quran manuscripts; section 4 is a comparative survey of the Borno, Senegambia and Adamawa manuscripts in terms of the relationship between the types of texts and the ample-spaced layout. This comparison reveals a complex pattern of correlation between types of glosses, layout, titles of works, curricula and phases of education.

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Section: Defining Phases Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%