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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Traduction française

Afriques, 2014
This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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Du nouveau sur la géographie de l’Éthiopie. Poggio Bracciolini, Biondo Flavio et le témoignage de l’ambassade éthiopienne au concile de Ferrare-Florence

Afriques, 2017
In August 1441, an embassy of eight monks (four from the Coptic communauty of Cairo, four ethiopans monks from Jerusalem) arrive at the Council of Florence.
Nathalie Bouloux
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Contribution des données paléométallurgiques à l’histoire des sociétés ouest-africaines durant les royaumes de Ghâna, Mâli, Gao et Mossi

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In sub-Sahelian Africa, ironmaking is the oldest, most widespread and most important metallurgy that has been practised. Its trajectory, which is therefore long term – at least three millennia – declines with the importation of European iron from the ...
Caroline Robion-Brunner
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Les documents copto-arabes dans les archives chrétiennes d’Éthiopie : de rares témoins de l’autorité épiscopale (XIVe-XVe s.)

Afriques, 2017
The Orthodox Christian Church of Ethiopia was statutorily a Coptic bishopric. From the fourth century until the middle of the twentieth century, its metropolitan bishops were appointed by the Patriarchal See of Alexandria.
Anaïs Wion
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Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change

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In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships.
Karen D. Lupo, Dave N. Schmitt
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Slavery, antislavery, political rivalry and regional networks in East African waters, 1877-1883

Afriques, 2015
This paper explores the dynamic between local, regional, and global forces for the Comoro Islands between the 1873 treaty mandating abolition of the export slave trade from Zanzibar to the imposition of French suzerainty over the Comoro Islands in 1886 ...
Edward A. Alpers
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Les Massūfa dans l’Ouest saharien au XIVe siècle, une souveraineté transsaharienne

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In the 14th century, West Africa presented a stable political landscape comprised of large sultanates. However, between North Africa and the Sahel, the Sahara is still seen as an area lacking political organizations of any worth, and the nomadic powers ...
Hadrien Collet
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Une nouvelle source arabe sur l’océan Indien au Xe siècle : le Ṣaḥīḥ min aḫbār al-biḥār wa-‘aǧā‘ibihā d’Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā ibn Rabāḥ al-Awsī al-Sīrāfī

Afriques, 2015
While The Book of the Wonders of India was an important evidence about commercial relations in the Indian Ocean in the tenth century, its author remained subject to debate.
Jean-Charles Ducène
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Politico-Theological Debates in Ghadames between the 1770s and the 1850s from a Global Perspective

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This article aims to shed light on the history of politico-theological debates in Ghadames, focusing on two distinct case studies through discourse analysis.
Kerem Duymus
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The visual resonances of a Harari Qur’ān: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript and its Indian Ocean connections

Afriques, 2017
Although not widely recognized as Harari, a Qur’ān manuscript in the Khalili Collection in London (QUR706) provides an opportunity to consider long-distance artistic circulations and encounters in the early modern Indian Ocean.
Sana Mirza
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