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When you find the Manuscript you were looking for long time in one volume instead of the typical two volumes. This copy of the Jalaalayn has been transcribed in 935hijra (=1528 c.a). The oldest document stored in #BilalulHabeshaMuseum.
Thank you Addis.
I discovered quite by chance this new (2018) Museum in the heart of #AddisAbaba. Bilalul Habeshi is a community museum to create public awareness about Islamic heritage and their value. 140 Islamic Manuscripts among the other cultural and heritage material.
@HargeysaCC @tirsity
Quran, hand written and other religious manuscripts but also an interesting MSS dealing with Botany, Astronomy Medicine, History, Law, Grammar, Numismatics, Biography and taxation. A place to be for researchers with interest of Islam in the Horn and indigenous knowledge. More ...
A fascinating aspect of the museum tour is the chronological timeline of #Islam in #Ethiopia. It starts from the letter Prophet Mohammed (SCW) wrote to King #Nejash at the early days of Islam.
... and the information the Prophet (SCW) gave the Companions when they had to flee to Ardul Habesh.
The story timeline goes with some archeological finds that show the presence of Islam in the inner land of Ethiopia. Photos of some caves that show tombs of the 13 century with 'Loah symbol' indicating that person was 'Xaafidul Quran.' But it immediately skips to #Harar.
There is also a biography of Imam Ahmed Gurey, written by T Mekonen who I partially disagree with his conjectural historical analysis, ... but that is another story.
And here another interesting storyline starts: photos of many renowned Ethiopian Muslim scholars who spread Islam in the inner land of Ethiopia. Almost all ethnic groups. Fascinating and less-known stories.
This museum is worth visiting.
#BilalulMabeshiMuseum #AddisAbaba
Coming back to the Manuscripts, they are not only religious texts but also on other topics: science, astronomy, logic in Islamic perspective written by local Islamic scholars
It is a fascinating testimony of how indigenous knowledge has been overlooked in African formal education
At the #BilalulHabeshiMuseum there is a small but well-equipped research center.
Guess who I met there by chance? Renowned journalist, Yusuf Getachew, former editor-in-chief of Ye Muslimoch Guday (Muslim Affairs), arrested in July 2012 and released in 2016.
What a nice surprise!
It was a pleasant visit. Thank you, Hassan, an expert in Islamic Manuscripts, who accompanied me on this journey and to the entire staff of the Museum for welcoming us.
Thanks also to Yikinno, the director of the National Library who organized the visit.
... goodbye my friend, Hassan - lecturer at Addis Ababa University and now finishing his Ph.D. in South Africa, an expert in codology and trained for especially Islamic manuscripts. Till next time!
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Apr 10, 2021
A few days back I held a @joinClubhouse conversation with an interesting gathering of #mathematics teachers and other #educators, and I did talk about #ethnomathematics.
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction
In the discussion, I also mentioned African Humanism as new enlightenment based on the endogenous & indigenous techniques and methods to generate knowledge in the #GlobalSouth.
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization
My point was and still remains not necessarily to antagonize the Western way of knowledge production but put aside and to mainstream our traditional techniques that fallen in disuse and take into formal education as another way of producing knowledge.
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Jun 5, 2020
ISS @issafrica publishes an article by @PFabric on #BerberaCorridor, under the sensational title: "Abiy helps Somaliland put more facts on the ground." It is confusing,
not factual and I have a problem with it.

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First, why @issafrica should publish such an article without even proofreading for the basics? I am surprised:
"Together with the US$442 billion expansion of the Port of Berbera .." It is not billion but million. But that is not my issue with it. @PFabric
My issue is what the title has to do with the content of the article? Did I miss something here? The article is not telling us any shape or form that PM @AbiyAhmedAli, and by extension current #Ethiopian policy, is supporting @Somaliland.
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