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Quand le droit pense la politique : à propos de deux lettres d’al-Muḫtār al-Ṣaġīr al-Kuntī (m. 1847) à l’imam de Ḥamdallāhi

Afriques, 2021
This article examines two letters sent by the head of the Kunta family in the Azaouad region, al-Muḫtār al-Ṣaġīr al-Kuntī (d. 1847), to Aḥmad Lobbo (d. 1845) at the time of the Ḥamdallāhi imamate’s expansion into the Niger Bend during the 1830s.
Ismail Warscheid
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St. Yared in the Sǝmen Mountains of northern Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Orthodox and Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) religious sites

Afriques, 2022
The Betä Ǝsraʾel and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians did not commonly recognize the same post-biblical individuals as holy men. One striking exception is Yared, perhaps the most renowned local saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, traditionally the ...
Bar Kribus, Sophia Dege-Müller
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A note on Mawlāy ‘Abd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad al-Sanūsī and his relationship with the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi

Afriques, 2021
This article explores the relationship between the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi and Timbuktu. In particular, it focuses on one scholar from Timbuktu whom scholars have neglected so far in the historiography of 19th-century West Africa: Mawlāy ‘Abd al-Qādir al-
Mohamed Diagayété
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Initial Encounters: Seeking traces of ancient trade connections between West Africa and the wider world

Afriques, 2013
The long-standing, more mythical than fact-based assumptions about ancient trade contacts between West Africa and the wider world prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa have only been substantiated by archaeological evidence in recent years. Although
Sonja Magnavita
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Le Discours historique de l’estat du royaume de Borno, genèse et construction d’une histoire du Borno par un captif de Tripoli au XVIIe siècle

Afriques, 2013
The Discours historique de l’estat du royaume de Borno, written by a former French slave in Tripoli in 1685, is one of the most important sources for the history of Borno sultanate.
Rémi Dewière
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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics

Afriques, 2013
The present tragedy in Mali draws our attention to the divisions, tensions and conflicts between West African ethnic groups, religious persuasions, and populations from different regions, in both the present and the past.
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
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Sur l’origine de l’écriture libyque. Quelques propositions

Afriques, 2013
A few hypotheses about the origin of the so-called “Libyan” alphabets are presented. Attested in more than a thousand inscriptions from Libya to the Canary Islands in northern Africa, these alphabets are probably the forebears of the current ones used by
Dominique Casajus
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Tadmekka. Archéologie d’une ville caravanière des premiers temps du commerce transsaharien

Afriques, 2013
This paper reports the first systematic excavations of Tadmekka, one of the major West African trading towns that enabled the huge growth of cross-Saharan trade during the early Islamic era (c. AD 650-1500). In 2005 excavations at Tadmekka’s contemporary
Sam Nixon
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L’histoire d’un vrai faux traité philosophique (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob et Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat). Épisode 2 : Le temps de la démystification et la traversée du désert (de 1916 aux années 1950)

Afriques, 2013
This second article in a series devoted to the history of the philosophical treatises attributed to Zar’a Yā‘eqob and his disciple Walda Ḥeywat explores the phase of “demystification”.
Anaïs Wion
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Race and military coalitions in the Middle Niger during the second half of the 19th century

Afriques, 2021
In the latter half of the 19th century Futanke invaders and their allies toppled the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi. The Futanke and the Masinanke of Ḥamdallāhi shared a similar faith, language, and culture, and both had fought wars under the umbrella of jihad ...
Joseph M. Bradshaw
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