| Journal: | Afro-Asia |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000521377 |
| ISSN: | 0002-0591 |
| Authors: | Dobronravin, Nikolay1 |
| Institutions: | 1Saint Petersburg University, San Petersburgo. Rusia |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Number: | 53 |
| Pages: | 185-226 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | Not only Mandingas: "Qaṣīdat al-Burda", ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt) and al-Ḥarīrī´s “Maqāmāt” in the writings of black Muslims in nineteenth-century Brazil.The article deals with the discovery of literary texts (including quotations) in ma-nuscripts that were produced and preserved by Africans in Brazil. The established list of works known to the learned slaves now includes the Arabic poems of al-Būṣīrī and Abū Madyan al-Tilimsānī, verses on wisdom and moral education, and at least one quotation from “Maqāmāt” by al-Ḥarīrī. Systematic research has also shown that Muslim blacks [in Brazil] were familiar with the Ajami variety of Arabic scriptused in writing African languages such as Hausa, Mandinka and Soninké.Unresolved problems are also discussed, such as the location of Muslim schools and teachers in nineteenth-century Brazil |
| Portuguese abstract | Neste artigo, trata-se da descoberta dos textos (inclusive citações) literários nos manuscritos que foram produzidos e conservados pelos africanos no Brasil escravista. A lista agora estabelecida das obras conhecidas pelos escravos cultos já inclui os poemas árabes de al-Br e de Ab Madyan al-Tilimsn, versos sobre a sabedoria e a educação moral, pelo menos uma citação de Maqmt de al-arr. pesquisa sistemática permitiu mostrar também que os negros muçulmanos estavam familiarizados com a escrita ajami (com caracteres árabes) em línguas africanas, tais como hauçá, mandinga e soninquê. Os problemas não resolvidos são discutidos, como a localização das escolas e mestres muçulmanos no Brasil oitocentista |
| Disciplines: | Historia, Literatura y lingüística |
| Keyword: | Historia regional, Forma y contenido literarios, Poesía, Cultura afrobrasileña, Islam, Literatura árabe |
| Keyword: | Regional History, Literary form and content, Poetry, Afro-Brazilian culture, Islam |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
