Coranica Alluha table

The boards there, hidden tablets on which Allah would have written, are small boards of about forty by twenty to thirty centimetres that make the work of slate on which the student writes. It is written with a piece of cane, usually millet, cut in bias and an ink whose elaboration varies according to the regions. These tablets are washed periodically as the child recites the writing to his teacher, so that he can write on them again.

It is on these wooden boards that Muslim children learn to write on the loggers, Madrasas or MadrasasKoranic schools spread across all African regions where Islam is established. You usually go to Koranic school from the age of five. The child will write his first syllables on one of these tablets, so that as he learns to write words or suras of the Qur'an, starting with the shortest ones and so on until he gets to write it whole, which takes place around his fourteen or fifteen years. Finished the cycle on malam, the master, will decorate his tablet and will be able to keep it permanently in his home because until then he had to stay in the Madrasa.

In addition to its pedagogical function, the tablet has a mediating function, as well as the masks, for when a passage from the Koran has been inscribed in it it restores the cosmic force that unites the invisible world, the world of the dead, the world of the living, which also leads to a magical or healing function. The usual practice, used mainly by healers, is that the water that has served to wash the ink with which a verse of the Koran has been written is collected to be administered to the sick as a healing ointment thanks to the efficacy produced by the words of the Koran.

Old table with numerous inscriptions showing its use and the passage of time. It is split into three parts that go suketas for numerous rivets of tin plate. The content only an arabist could explain it.