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T1 Traces of the Medieval Islamic West in Modern East AfricaAndalusi and Maghribi Works in the Horn of Africa
A1 Hernández López, Adday
A2 Penelas, Mayte
A2 Fierro, Maribel
AB While the main vehicle for the spread of Andalusi and Maghribi intellectual pro-duction in space and time was the circulation of books and the mobility of schol-ars, scholars outside the Maghrib also played an important role by commenting on, expanding or refuting works produced in the Islamic West. In this paper I will concentrate on the presence of this sort of intellectual production in the Horn of Africa, using the materials catalogued for the project Islam in the Horn of Africa: A  Comparative  Literary  Approach. Thousands  of  Arabic  manuscripts  and  other  types of writings from different locations, mainly produced between the 18th cen-tury and the 20thcentury in the Horn, were catalogued between 2014 and 2018, and have been classified according to genre, content, author, title, place of crea-tion, etc. I already discussed the presence of Andalusi and Maghribi works in the region in a 2015 paper on the Andalusi texts and authors found in the Arabic col-lection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. Two years later, I came across a com-mentary to the work of the Andalusi author Ibn Farḥ/Faraḥ (d. 699 H/1300 CE), Qaṣīda  ghazaliyya  fī  alqāb  al-ḥadīth.  The  commentary,  entitled  Zawāl  al-taraḥ,was written by Ibn Jamāʿa (d. 819 H/1416 CE), but in the Ethiopian manuscript it was attributed to an Ethiopian author. Since then I have been able to locate many more scholars and works from the medieval Islamic West after examining othercollections of manuscripts. My aim in this paper is to expand and revise the in-formation given in previous publications, asking what the particular conditions were that fostered the spread of such texts, and why they aroused interest within the Horn of Africa.
PB Walter de Gruyter GmbH
SN 978-3-11-071269-8
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96630
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96630
LA eng
NO Hernández López, Adday. «Traces of the Medieval Islamic West in Modern East Africa: Andalusi and Maghribi Works in the Horn of Africa». The Maghrib in the Mashriq, editado por Maribel Fierro y Mayte Penelas, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 435-52. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713305-016.
NO European Commision
DS Docta Complutense
RD 27 ago 2025