The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script.
What are all our books doing in European libraries? They came, stole, and then started lying.
Fascinating! But I'm unclear whether this is a *single* script used across various African kingdoms and states, or whether the Ajami refers to a bunch of unrelated scripts developed independently in various places.
They are all a modification of the Arabic script, so ajami is simply a collective name for many indpenedent scripts
Very interesting, informative and educational
thank you
What are all our books doing in European libraries? They came, stole, and then started lying.
Fascinating! But I'm unclear whether this is a *single* script used across various African kingdoms and states, or whether the Ajami refers to a bunch of unrelated scripts developed independently in various places.
They are all a modification of the Arabic script, so ajami is simply a collective name for many indpenedent scripts
Very interesting, informative and educational
thank you