Allo Kafii Gida: Secret Qur'anic Boards from Northern Nigeria

by Antoine Lema

Secrecy is the common feature of the so-called allo kafii gida Qur'anic writing boards used by the Hausa of northern Nigeria. While on the one hand their owners share a barely concealed reluctance to reveal the auspicious epigrams decorating these artefacts, on the other they exhibit a clear desire to avoid displaying images of animals and human beings that might cause repercussions in an iconoclastic Islamic context. One need only consider that even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8874398743
• ISBN13: 9788874398744
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 13.6"