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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

versión On-line ISSN 2309-9070
versión impresa ISSN 0041-476X

Tydskr. letterkd. vol.45 no.1 Pretoria ene. 2008

 

EDITORIAL

 

Africa's variety of Arabo-Islamic Literatures - an overview

 

 

Muhammed Haron

Muhammed Haron is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, and also Executive Member of the Centre for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. E-mail: haronm@mopipi.ub.bw

 

 

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