The spread of the Arabic language in South Africa during the 4-8 / 10-16 CE century
Abstract
The Arabic language is closely related to Islam. Arabs are considered the first subject of Islam. Therefore, you can say that wherever Islam exists, there is the Arabic language. If we read what is written about Islam and its spread in sub-Saharan Africa, we will find it a lot. As for the spread of the Arabic language, its news in ancient Arab sources was brief and rather rare, to the extent that we hardly find in all sources what is one combined paragraph. All that came are general references and scattered words indicating the subject unintentionally, because Islam was the meaning of the publication of those Arab historians and geographers.
As for the attention of modern Arabic references and periodicals, they are also focused on the study of Islam, Arab migrations, economic and religious relations between Arabs and Sudan, and there are hardly any papers on the spread of the Arabic language in addition to the fact that the presented material did not separate the talk about the reasons for the spread of the Arabic language, nor did it refer to the means and methods Its spread.
Based on the foregoing, this research will carefully present the topic to important issues related to the importance of the Arabic language and its superiority over African languages in severe ways, and it will focus on detailing the ways, means and causes of the spread of the Arabic language in the region.
In fact, the study of this topic in the present age is extremely important of many types, in addition to the dearth of written about it in sources and references. And its importance has come for urgent political and cultural reasons, given that European colonialism is working hard to separate this region from the Arab world linguistically, and after that, culturally, in order to continue its colonization.