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Early Nigerian Qur’anic Manuscripts
(ENiQMa) is an interdisciplinary project which explores a unique resource on Kanuri, an
important West African language, and investigates the history of Islamic/Qur’anic
studies in the Kanem-Borno Empire, which originated in the 9th century A.D. to
the northeast of Lake Chad.
Kanuri, together with its related variety
Kanembu, is spoken by more than four million people in a vast area around Lake
Chad spanning four countries: Nigeria,
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The
main study areas covered by ENiQMa include linguistic analysis of the archaic Kanembu data and
examination of the Islamic manuscripts written in this same language.
Please check Project news for updates.
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