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Field Notes on the Arabic Literature of the Western Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

W. E. N. Kensdale
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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.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 88 , Issue 1-2 , April 1956 , pp. 78 - 80
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1956

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1 Field notes on the Arabic literature of the Western Sudan. Shehu Ucumanu dan Fodio.