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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.

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