The earliest Yoruba translation of the Qur'an: missionary engagement with Islam in Yorubaland

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The earliest Yoruba translation of the Qur'an: missionary engagement with Islam in Yorubaland

This study analyses the first translation of the meaning of the Qur'an into Yoruba, a language spoken mainly in south-western Nigeria in West Africa. Yorubaland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a theatre of serious engagement between Muslims and Christian missionaries, during which...

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Main Author:	Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh University Press 2015
Subjects:	BP130 Works about the Qurʼān BP169 Works against Islam and the Qur'an BP171 Relation of Islam to other religions
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45882/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45882/1/01_The_Earliest_Yoruba_Translation_of_the_Qur%E2%80%99an.pdf

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