i- Authorship
6- Phonology of the Languages of the Muslim Nations in Africa (published by ISESCO). al-Macarif El-Jadida Press, Rabat, 1999 (in Arabic).
7- Hausa in the Sudan: Process of Adaptation to Arabic (Westafrikanische Studien N0. 18), Rüdiger Koppe Verlag, Cologne (Germany), 1999.
8- Languages in Africa: An Introductory Book. Khartoum, International University of Africa Press, 2006 (in Arabic – co-author).
9- Language Situation in the Sudan. Khartoum: Khartoum Univ. Press, 2006 (co-author – with Y. A. Abu-Bakr) (in Arabic).
10- Orthographie standard et unifiee pour la langue pulaar/Fulfulde (Standard and Unified Orthography for the Pulaar/Fulfulde Language). Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), Cape Town University, 2012 (with others) (in French).
11- Old Fulani in the Sennar Area (Sudan) (field notes). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany), 2017.
12- Fulbe in the Blue Nile Area of Sudan (field notes). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany), 2017 (with Prof. Guenther Schlee).
13- Nahr al-Nējar wa Baḥr al-Nīl (The River Niger and the Nile Sea). Khartoum: KUP, 2021.
14- Farmers and Herders in the Blue Nile Area: Conflict or Symbiosis? (Volume I & II). Hale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2022 (with Elhadi O. Ibrahim and Guenther Schlee).
15- Lights on the Poetry of the Dan Fodio’s Family: Sample fron the Ontology of Shaikh Abdullahi and Ontology of Shaikh Muhammad Bello. Khartoum: Abnaa’ al-Balad Organization for Renaissance and Comprehensive Services, 2022.
ii- Editing
16- Gime Fulfulde: Gime Shehu Usmanu Bi Fodio, (ed. with I. Mukoshy), (occasional publications of C. S.N.L.), 1981.
17– Directions for Research in Fulfulde and Fulbe Culture (ed.), (occasional publications of C.S.N.L.), Kano, 1982.
18- Study in Hausa Language, Literature and Culture (ed.), C.S.N.L., Kano, 1982 (with I.Y. Yahaya and Abba Rufa’i).
19- Fulfulde – English Dictionary, C.S.N.L., Kano, 1998 (ed. With Garba Kawu Dauda et al.).
20- Shilluk Folkore, by James Alala, Study series in Sudanese Folklore (39), Khartoum Universitu Press, 2005 (in Arabic)
21- Insights into Nilo–Saharan Languages, History and Culture. Cologne: Ruedige Koeppe Verlag, 2006 (ed. with Leoma Gilley and Anne Storch).
22- A Study of Contemporary Sudanese Muslim Saints’ Legends in Socioculutural Contexts, by Sharafeldin El Amin Abdelsalam (a Ph.D. dissertation. I edited a version translated into Arabic). Khartoum, Khartoum University Press, 2007.
23- Secession is not the Solution to the Southern Sudan Problem, by Wani Tombe. (Sudanese Papers Series No. 5), Middle East and Africa Studies Centre, Khartoum, 2008 (the Arabic version).
24- Secession is not the Solution to the Southern Sudan Problem, by Wani Tombe. (Sudanese Papers Series No. 6), Middle East and Africa Studies Centre, Khartoum, 2009 (the English version).
25- The Foreign Organized in Sudan: The Hidden Agenda and the Real Objectives, (Sudanese Papers Series No. 9), Middle East and Africa Studies Centre, Khartoum, 2012 (the Arabic version).
26- The Foreign Organizations in Sudan: The Hidden Agenda and the Real Objectives, (Sudanese Papers Series No. 10), Middle East and Africa Studies Centre, Khartoum, 2012 (the English version).
27- Bulletin of Sudanese Studies (periodical of the Institute of African and Asian Studies), Vol. 13, Nr. 1 (2005); Nr. 2 (2007); Vol. 14 (2008); Vol. 15 (2009); Vol. 16 (2010); Vol. 17 (2011); Vol. 18 (2012); Vol. 19 (2013); Vol. 20 (2014); Vol. 21 (2015); vol. 22 (2016); vol. 23 (2017); vol. 24 (2018); vol. 25 (2019); vol. 26 (2020); vol. 27 (2021).
28- “Process of linguistic borrowing: A case study of Maiurno on the Blue Nile”, Harsunan Nijeriya Vol. VIII, Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages (C.S.N.L.), Bayero University Kano (BUK), 1978.
29- “Two Fulfulde jihad poems: A case of up-dating”, Harsunan Nijeriya X, C.S.N.L., B.U.K., Kano, 1980.
30- “The Position of the Prophet in Dan Fodio’s poetry”, Kano Studies II,2, 1981.
31- “Some aspects of Fulfulde proverbs”, Harsunan Nijeriya XI, C.S.N.L., B.U.K., Kano, 1981.
32- “Some aspects of Fulfulde acquisition by the Hausa native speakers”, Study in Hausa Language, Literature and Culture, ed. by I.Y. Yahaya et al., C.S.N.L., B.U.K., Kano, 1982.
33- “Code-switching among the Fulani and Hausa in the Sudan”, Africana Marburgensia XV,2, University of Marburg, 1982.
34- “Length and focus in the Fulfulde verbal system”, Africana Marburgensia XVII, 1, University of Marburg, 1984.
35- “On the middle voice in African languages (Fulfulde and Somali)”, Journal of West African Languages XVIII, 1, 1988 (with Prof. H. Jungraithmayr).
36- “A study of Arabic loan-words in African languages from a semantic perspective”, Al-Ma’thurat Al-Sha’biyya XII, Al-Dawha (Qatar), 1989.
37- “The juridical roots of Sultan Attahiru’s hijra from Sokoto “, Dirasat Ifriqiyya V, Islamic African Centre, Khartoum, 1989 (in Arabic).
38- “Arabic loan-words in the Nilotic languages of the Southern Sudan”, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Conference, (Nilo-Saharan Vol. 7), ed. by M.L. Bender. Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 1991.
39- “Acquisition of Arabic by non-Arab migrants in Greater Khartoum”, Sudan: Environment and People (Second International Sudan Studies Conference papers). Durham, 1991 (with Dr. C. Miller).
40- “The Sudanese – Nigerian relations within the Mahdist movements”, Sudan Foreign Relations, ed. by H. Osman and M.M. Ahmed. Khartoum, Khartoum Univ. Press (KUP), 1992 (in Ar.).
41- “Resistance of the Western system of education by the early migrant community of Maiurno (Sudan)”, in Islam in Africa, ed. by N. Alkali et al. Ibadan, Spectrum Books, 1993.
42- “The effect of Islam and Arabic language and literature in the development of Hausa literature”, Dirasat Ifriqiyya XI, 1994 (in Ar.).
43- “Behaviour of the Sudanese Arabic verbal stems in Sudanese Hausa”, Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica, ed. by D. Ibrizimow & R. Leger. Cologne, Rüdiger Koeppe, 1995.
44- “The language situation in the Sudan and its effect on the unification of Arabic curricula for students specializing in applied sciences”, Teaching of Arabic in Faculties of Natural and Applied Sciences (Proceedings of Conf. No. 17), 1995a. (in Ar.).
45- “The Songhai speech communities in the Sudan with special reference to the Songhai speakers of the Blue Nile”, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, (Nilo-Saharan Vol. 10), ed. by Robert Nicolai & Frantz Rottland. Cologne, Ruedige Koeppe Verlag, 1995b.
46- „Contact between Arabic and Hausa in Sudan“, Materiaux Arabes et Sudarabiques, vol. 7, 1995-96 (with Dr. C. Miller).
47- “The ideological effects of Dan Fodio’s movement on the Sudan (Republic)”, in Shaikh Usman Dan Foduye, ed. by O.M. Saeed & A.A El-Hassan. Khartoum: International Univ. of Africa Press, 1996.)
48- „The reaction of the Sokoto Caliphate toward the British Christian colonialism“, in Islam in Africa, ed. by M. Abdelrahim & T. Abdelqadir. Khartoum, El-Hikma Press, 1996 (in Ar.)
49- „The role of the Fulfulde and Hausa Islamic verse in the success of the Sokoto-Jihad“, in La Culture Arabo-Islamique en Afrique au Sud du Sahara: Cas de l‘Afrique de l‘Ouest (Proceedings of Tombuktu International Conference), ed. by A. Temimi. Zaghouan. Tunis: Fondation Tamimi, 1997.
50- „Between Niger and Nile: New light on the Fulani Mahdist Muhammad Al-Dadari“, Sudanic Africa, vol. 8, 1997 (with J.O. Hunwick et al.).
51- „The role of the Christian missions in the inception and development of the tradition of research on African languages“, Evangalization and the Colonial Encroachment in Africa, ed. by H. El- Natiq & T.S. Bashir. Khartoum, Intern. Uni. of Africa Press, 1999 (in Ar.)
52- „Socio-cultural, socio-economic and sociolinguistic diversity among the Fulbe of the Sudan Republic” in V. Azarya et al. (eds): Pastoralists under Pressure? Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa. J. Brill, Leiden, 1999.
53- “Contribution of the Sokoto Jihad leaders in Dissemination of knowledge through local languages”, in Civilisation Islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest, ed. by Samba Dieng. Istambul, IRCICA, 1999.
54- “Problems of representing some linguistic phenomena by phonetic symbols”, in Righting of African Languages in Arabic Scripts. Khartoum, International Institute of Arabic Language, 2001.
55- “Language, Culture and Identity in Sudan”, in Paper of the Regular Forum of the Central for Research and African Studies, 1st Collection, International University of Africa, ed. by Dr. Kamal Jahalla. Khartoum, International University of Africa Press, 2004.
56- “The West African (Fallata) communities in Gedaref State: Process of settlement and local integration”, in Land, Ethnicity and Political Legitimacy in Eastern Sudan, ed. by C. Miller, CEDEJ (Cairo) & DSRC (Khartoum), 2005 (with C. Miller).
57- “The Arabic-Islamic Literature in Eastern and Western Africa: A Comparative Study”, Dirasat Ifriqiyya Nr. 34, 2005 (in Arabic).
58- “The influence of Arabic on African Languages”, Mujallat Majmac al-Lugha l-cArabiyya (Journal of Arabic Academy), No. 6, 2005 (in Arabic).
59- “After the Hijra: Colonialism and the establishment of immigrant ccommunities in the Sudan”, in A.M. Yakubu et al (eds.), Northern Nigeria: A Century of Transformation, 1903-2003, Kaduna, Baraka Press, 2005.
60- “Arabic and other African Languages”, Cahier du Patrimonie Commun Maroco- Africain (Serie: Conference (30). Rabat: Publication de l’Institut des Etudes Africaines, 2006 (in Arabic).
61- “Hausa” (Arabic Loanwords in Hausa), Encyclopedia of Arabic Languages and Linguistics vol. 2, ed. by Ingrid Heijckers et al. Leiden: J. Brill, 2006
62- “The Role of the ‘Pen’ in the Establishment and Consolidation of the Sokoto Caliphate” in H. Bobboyi and A. M. Yakubu (eds.), The Sokoto Caliphate, History and Legacies, 1804-2004 (2 vols), vol. II. Kaduna: Arewa House, Ahmadu Bello University, 2006.
63-.“Factors of spread and recession of Islam in Zimbabwe and Uganda: A comparative study”, in Islam in Africa (Proceedings of the International Conference on Islam in Africa), 6th Book-Conference Papers. Khartoum: International Univ. of Africa, 2007 (co-author, with K.M. Jahalla).
64- “The historical and everlasting relations between Sudan and Nigeria”, Majallat al-Sharq al-Awsat wa Ifriqiayya, 2008 (in Arabic).
65- “The patterns of the settlement of the West African immigrant communities in the Sudan during the first decades of the 20th century”, Sudan Notes & Records, No. 6 (new series 2002), 2008.
66- “Rihlat al-Hajj wa Atharuha l-Ijtimaciyya wa l-Iqtisadiyya fi Sudan Wadi l-Nil” (Pilgrimage travels and their Social and Economical Effect on Nilotic Sudan), Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, vol. 14, Oct. 2008.
67- “Sudan Arabic”, Encyclopedia of Arabic Languages and Linguistics vol. 4, ed. by Kees Versteegh et al. Leiden: J. Brill, 2009.
68- “The rise and decline of lorry driving in the Fallata migrant community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile”, in Changing Identifications and Alliances in North- Eastern Africa (Vol. 3), ed. by G. Schlee & E. Watson. Oxford and New York:, 2009.
69- “Linguistic problems in writing of geographical names in the Sudan”, Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, vol.16, 2010 (in Arabic, co-author with Asma Mohamed Ibrahim).
70- “The relationship between the Fulani and the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Nubians”, Dirasat Ifriqiyya Nr. 44, 2010 (in Arabic, co-author with Suleiman Yahya).
71- “Language Policy and Planning in Sudan: From Local Vernaculars to National Languages”, in: Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011), ed. By B. Casciarri, M. Assal and F. Ireton. New York and London: Berghahn, 2015 (with Ashraf Abdelhay and Catherine Miller).
72- “Fallata”, in: Encyclopedia of Islam Three. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, pp. 94-96.
73- “Malāmih min al-cAlāqāt al-Tārīkhiyya wa l-Iqtisādiyyi wa l-Ijitimāciyya wa l-Thaqāfiyya bain al-Sūdān wa Naijirya” (Traits of the historical, economic, social and cultural relations between Sudan and Nigeria), Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, vol 22, 2016.
74- “Challenges to Management of linguistic diversity in the Sudan”. In: C ЛЮбOBbЮ K BOCTOKY (With Love to the East), ed. by Igor V. Gerasimov & Vladimir N. Blondin. Saint-Petersburg: Art Express, 2019.
75- “Responses of Muslims communities against imperial conquest: The Sokoto Caliphate in comparison with the Bosnian case”, Dirasat Ifriqiyya, No. 62, 2019.
76- “The relation between the Funj Kingdon and West Africa”, Bulletin of Sudanese Studies (BSS), vol. 25. 2019.
77- “The situation of Arabic Language in Aweil Town at the dawn of the secession”, Elementary Education Online, vol. 20 (issue 5), 2021. pp.7564-7579 – http://ilkogretim-online.org.
78- “Where do they belong and what belongs to them? Acceptance of ‘sedentirizing ‘ Fulbe and rejection of Arab returnees in Blue Nile State and Sennar State, Sudan. In Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters, ed. by Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert and John R. Eidson. New York, Oxford: Berghan, 2022 (with Elhadi Ibrahim Osman).
79- Grammaticalization and Reanalysis of African Languages, by B. Heine and M.
Reh, in Mundus XXI, 4, 1985.
80- Der Arabische Dialekt der Shukriyya im Ostsudan (The Shukriyya Arabic Dialect
of Eastern Sudan), by S. Reichmuth, in 1985 (with Prof. H. Jungraithmayr). Afrika
und Uebersee 68, 2, 1985.
81- Geschichte der Erforschung der Nubaberge (The History of Research in the Nuba Mountains), by G. Dabitz, in Mundus XXII, 2, 1986.
82- Silamaka Fara Dikko: ein westafrikanisches Epos in den Bambara Versionen (Silamaka Fara Dikko: A West African Epic in Bambara), by Ousman Ba, in Mundus XXV, 1, 1989.
83- Status and Use of African Lingua Francas, by B. Heine. Münchin: Feldform (trns. With Dr. Ahmed Alsadig).
– Arabic Literature of Africa, Vo. 2: The Writings of Central Sudanic Africa, by John O. Humwick. Leiden. New York. London: Brill, 1995 (Camera-ready –to appear soon).
1- Fulani and Hausa Speech Communities in the Sudan (M.A. Dissertation), Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum, 1979.
2- „The linguistic aspects of the relation between Africa and the Arab World“, presented to Conf. No. 6.
3- „Language change among the Hausa speakers in the Sudan: A Case from Maiurno on the Blue Nile“, presented to Conf. No. 11.
4- „Human mobility and sociolinguistic integration: Informal settlements in Khartoum“ (with Dr. C. Miller), presented to Conf. No. 12.
5- „Ethnic label, ethnic identity and language: The case of the Fellata, Nuba and Fertit of the Sudan“ (with Dr. C. Miller), presented to Conf. No. 18.
6- “The use of the local languages in the national Radio of Omdurman: The experience of the Hausa programme service” (in Ar.), presented to Conf. No. 21.)
7- “Names of the Fulani and Hausa settlements in the Sudan“, presented to Conf. No. 26.
8- “The significance of Sudan for forensic linguistics“, presented to Seminar. No. 33.
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