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A Preliminary Handlist of the Arabic Inscriptions of the Eastern African Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville  and
B. G. Martin
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A major gap in present research into the past of eastern Africa has been the lack of a corpus—or at least the beginning of a collection—of the Islamic epigraphy of the coast. What has been set out here is intended only as a beginning: all of us hope that readers of this article will publish themselves, or forward to any of us, information which they may have for future publication. In this way we may some day hope to possess a corpus of inscriptions for this region as complete as the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum begun by Max van Berchem, or the Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe of Combe, Sauvaget, and Wiet.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 105 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 98 - 122
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1973

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