Popularizing Islamic Knowledge through Oral Epic: A Malian Bard in a Media Age.
This article explores a rather understudied feature of West African oral epics, namely its role as a channel for the transmission and popularization of Islamic religious knowledge. The documentary basis of analysis is provided by a set of oral texts performed in the Bambara language by a Malian grio...
| Publicado en: | Welt des Islams Vol. 49; no. 3/4; pp. 367 - 398 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2009
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