| Arabic Afrikaans |
Article Index for Arabic |
Website Links For Arabic |
Information AboutArabic Afrikaans |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ARABIC AFRIKAANS | |
| afrikaans | |
|
One of the best examples of this literature was ''Uiteensetting van die Godsdiens'' ("Exposition of the Religion"), a book laying out Islam ic traditions according to the Hanafi religious law. Written by Abu Bakr Effendi , it was printed using Arabic script throughout, but contained transcriptions of Afrikaans. Abu Bakr Effendi was sent in 1862 by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülâziz to the Cape Of Good Hope to teach the Muslim community of the Cape Malays . From 1862 to 1869 he studied the local language use and compiled the book, which was finally printed and published in 1877 by the state press in Istanbul . For this reason, it gives an invaluable insight into the use of Afrikaans in the so-called "Slams" (slang for Islamic) neighbourhoods of Cape Town in that period. It is also significant, since this community did not have Dutch as Mother Tongue and were therefore mostly unaffected by its Orthography . The book, totalling 354 pages, was divided into 8 parts, each dealing with a specific part of Islamic law: # ritual cleansing (pp. 2–66) # ritual prayer (pp. 66–219) # religious tax (pp. 219–258) # fasting (pp. 258–284) # slaughtering of livestock (pp. 284–302) # religious prohibitions (pp. 302–344) # drink (pp. 344–349) # hunting (pp. 349–354) Adriaanus Van Selms , a Dutch scholar and Semitic researcher, published a translation of Abu Bakr Effendi's work in 1979. Since the original work presented spoken Afrikaans without using vowels, van Selms's biggest task was to decipher which Afrikaans words were being referred to. The Apartheid regime never publicly acknowledged these and similar facts, since Afrikaans was purported to be of Afrikaner and Christian origin, and therefore a unique treasure of the Afrikaners. Today efforts are being made to assess Afrikaans and its origin much more honestly, and to accept it as a truly multicultural and (at least partly) Creole Language . An example that used Arabic vowels was a handwritten Arabic - Afrikaans bilingual Koran (perhaps written in the 1880's). In it, for example, Surah 67 verse 1 says p.93, "The Koran, A Very Short Introduction" by Michael Cook, publ Oxford University Press , 2000 AD, ISBN 0-19-285344-9:
Here in the Afrikaans text:
REFERENCES
|
|
|