Parution : Ari Awagana, Camille Lefebvre (eds), L’œuvre en kanouri d’al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria), Brill, 2025
L’œuvre en kanouri d’al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria)
Editors: Ari Awagana and Camille Lefebvre
Series: African Sources for African History, Volume: 20
At the dawn of the twentieth century, in Cairo the encounter of a Kanuri scholar, al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, and a German amateur linguist, Rudolf Prietze, resulted in the production by al-Hajj Musa of an exceptional collection of Kanuri texts. This oral and written corpus gathers original texts and tales, songs and proverbs from the popular culture of nineteenth century Borno. The European act of collecting and grammatization could not erase, in this case, the strength of the original episteme. When studied as historical sources, this corpus of texts shed light on translinguistic practices, in between Kanuri and Hausa, and on the role of memorization and mental composure at the intersection of the religious and the secular and of erudition and popular culture.
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (1 juillet 2025). Parution : Ari Awagana, Camille Lefebvre (eds), L’œuvre en kanouri d’al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria), Brill, 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 7 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/148sw

