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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Introduction

Afriques, 2014
The Life and the miracles of Daniel of Qorqor are currently known through two manuscripts preserved in the church of Māryām Qorqor in Tigray. The first, dated to 1911 A.D., is available only on a microfilm kept at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in ...
Gérard Colin
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Édition du texte guèze

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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L’archipel des Comores et son histoire ancienne. Essai de mise en perspective des chroniques, de la tradition orale et des typologies de céramiques locales et d’importation

Afriques, 2015
This article treats neither the early modern history nor the contemporary history of the Comoro Islands, but aims to study the earlier periods by correlating and comparing three types of documents despite the inherent difficulties of doing so ...
Claude Allibert
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Dispute over precedence and protocol: Hagiography and forgery in 19th-century Ethiopia

Afriques, 2016
This study investigates the textual and legal issues conveyed by records of a court case that took place in 1897 involving the Ethiopian churches of Dima and Märtulä Maryam over precedence, court etiquette, and decorum.
Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne
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L’immigration indentured à l’île Maurice, 1840-1870 : conditions, abus et résistance

Afriques, 2015
This article analyzes the indentured labour in Mauritius between the 1840s and the 1870s. In particular it focuses on labour forms and relationships, the salaries level and payment, debt and eventually savings, health assistance and the conditions for ...
Alessandro Stanziani
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Mobilité et archéologie le long de l’arc oriental du Niger : pavements et percuteurs

Afriques, 2013
This analysis of the role of migration in West Africa begins by recalling the prevalence of oral traditions about so-called 'first-comers', and takes the example of dry season migrations in the Hausa area (cin rani).
Anne Haour
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A propaganda document in support of the 19th century Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir al-Fulānī’s “Letter on the appearance of the twelfth caliph” (Risāla fī ẓuhūr al-khalīfa al-thānī ʻashar)

Afriques, 2016
The Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi, located in the modern Republic of Mali, was founded by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818 and left behind a huge corpus of Arabic correspondence and dispatches that is mainly unexplored by historians.
Mauro Nobili
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A historical overview of the Wärğəḥ Muslim community in the Christian highland of Šäwa

Afriques, 2016
The Wärğəḥ Muslim community constitutes more than 22,000 people in Ethiopia. They live in diverse parts of the country, but the largest number of Wärğəḥ are found in north Šäwa and near Dəre Dawa. In north Šäwa, the community of Wärğəḥ has established
Deresse Ayenachew
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Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)

Afriques, 2014
This article analyses the accoustic images of Ethiopia given by the Franciscan father Remedius Prutky in his travelogue Itinerarium, written in the mid-17th c., a text recently edited and translated. A sensory-oriented reading of this text is possible by
Anne Damon-Guillot
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The History of a Genuine Fake Philosophical Treatise (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob and Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat)

Afriques, 2021
Aïssatou Mbodj, Anaïs Wion
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