Islamic Law, Linguistic Complexity and Scientific Knowledge
A Note on an Arabic Zoological List from Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7546193 |
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| Authors | Alessandro Gori (0000-0002-8703-8700, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Philippe Provençal (0009-0004-9670-5319, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aethiopica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1430-1938 • E-ISSN: 2194-4024 |
| Publisher | Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2057 |
| OpenAlex | W4410521597 |
| Language | EN |
In the present article a list of Arabic animal names copied in a codex kept in a collection in the town of Agaro (Jimma Zone, Oromia Region) is published and analyzed. Together with the Arabic words, the short text contains also explicatory glosses and translations into Amharic and Oromo. The authors describe the origin and the function of the text, setting it into the wider framework of the production of lists and glossaries in the manuscript traditions of Ethiopia. They then study the structure and content of the list from zoological and linguistic points of view, highlighting the interpretational issues that the author of the text had to face and solve
Amharic · Arabic · Archaeology · Islam · Linguistics · African history and culture analysis · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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