À partir de XVᵉ siècle
South-eastern Madagascar
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The Anteimoro were a people of south-eastern Madagascar whose traditions combined Arab and Muslim ancestry with probable connections to northern Madagascar, the Comoros, and the East African coast. Commoners appear to have settled in their later homeland around 1500 among earlier inhabitants. Anteimoro society preserved Arabic-script literacy, paper manufacture, centralized political organization, and influential diviners, institutions that later affected the formation of inland Malagasy kingdoms.
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Le récit
The Anteimoro became established in south-eastern Madagascar among earlier inhabitants, with the common people apparently settling in their present homes around AD 1500. Their traditions connected them with an Arab and Muslim past, while the broader account considers foreign elements from northern Madagascar, the Comoros, and the East African coast to be probable. Their relationship to Iharana remains a historical possibility rather than a certainty.
Although the Anteimoro retained little Islam, they preserved the knowledge of writing in Arabic script and applied it to their own language. They also developed a particularly advanced knowledge of manufacturing a type of paper. These skills distinguished them from many neighboring communities and preserved an intellectual tradition inherited from the maritime world without reproducing its full religious system.
Tradition held that the Anteimoro had originally been organized as a single kingdom, which was divided into four by the sixteenth century. Their ombiasa, or seers, combined magical sciences with literacy and came to exercise considerable influence among adjacent peoples. The centralized polity, expansionist tendencies, and authority of these specialists later contributed to the development of kingdoms in Madagascar’s interior during the seventeenth century and after.
À partir de XVᵉ siècle
South-eastern Madagascar
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Anteimoro were a people of south-eastern Madagascar whose traditions combined Arab and Muslim ancestry with probable connections to northern Madagascar, the Comoros, and the East African coast. Commoners appear to have settled in their later homeland around 1500 among earlier inhabitants. Anteimoro society preserved Arabic-script literacy, paper manufacture, centralized political organization, and influential diviners, institutions that later affected the formation of inland Malagasy kingdoms.
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Le récit
The Anteimoro became established in south-eastern Madagascar among earlier inhabitants, with the common people apparently settling in their present homes around AD 1500. Their traditions connected them with an Arab and Muslim past, while the broader account considers foreign elements from northern Madagascar, the Comoros, and the East African coast to be probable. Their relationship to Iharana remains a historical possibility rather than a certainty.
Although the Anteimoro retained little Islam, they preserved the knowledge of writing in Arabic script and applied it to their own language. They also developed a particularly advanced knowledge of manufacturing a type of paper. These skills distinguished them from many neighboring communities and preserved an intellectual tradition inherited from the maritime world without reproducing its full religious system.
Tradition held that the Anteimoro had originally been organized as a single kingdom, which was divided into four by the sixteenth century. Their ombiasa, or seers, combined magical sciences with literacy and came to exercise considerable influence among adjacent peoples. The centralized polity, expansionist tendencies, and authority of these specialists later contributed to the development of kingdoms in Madagascar’s interior during the seventeenth century and after.
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