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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Edinburgh University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/45882/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45882/ 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 |