As elsewhere in Africa,1 the use of Arabic script emerged in coastal northern Mozambique through contact with Islam. Judging by the number of documents uncovered at the Mozambique Historical Archives during a 2009 pilot study and Portuguese eyewitness accounts of the period, the outcome of this contact was a relatively widespread African literacy at the end of the nineteenth century.2 Contrary to Jack Goody’s assumption, the spread of Islam here did not result in a literacy restricted to the religious field alone or by the alleged African tendency to regard books as magical and secret; and literacy was certainly not controlled only by specialists.3 Rather it was extensively applied to

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莫桑比克北部的伊斯兰教和扫盲：阿拉伯文字世俗使用的历史记录

与非洲其他地方一样，1 通过与伊斯兰教的接触，在莫桑比克北部沿海地区出现了阿拉伯文字的使用。根据莫桑比克历史档案馆在 2009 年的一项试点研究中发现的文件数量以及该时期的葡萄牙目击者记述，这种接触的结果是在 19 世纪末相对普遍的非洲识字。2 与杰克古迪的假设相反，伊斯兰教在这里的传播并没有导致文化仅限于宗教领域，也没有导致所谓的非洲人将书籍视为神奇和秘密的倾向；识字当然不仅仅由专家控制。 3 相反，它被广泛应用于