A viewset for viewing and editing Sacred Texts.

GET /api/sc/sacred-texts/?format=api&page=10
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "count": 546,
    "next": "https://seshat-db.com/api/sc/sacred-texts/?format=api&page=11",
    "previous": "https://seshat-db.com/api/sc/sacred-texts/?format=api&page=9",
    "results": [
        {
            "id": 451,
            "polity": {
                "id": 409,
                "name": "bd_bengal_sultanate",
                "long_name": "Bengal Sultanate",
                "start_year": 1338,
                "end_year": 1538
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 452,
            "polity": {
                "id": 782,
                "name": "bd_twelve_bhuyans",
                "long_name": "Twelve Bhuyans",
                "start_year": 1538,
                "end_year": 1612
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "The Holy Quran.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 453,
            "polity": {
                "id": 778,
                "name": "in_east_india_co",
                "long_name": "British East India Company",
                "start_year": 1757,
                "end_year": 1858
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Christian bible, Islamic Quran.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 454,
            "polity": {
                "id": 781,
                "name": "bd_nawabs_of_bengal",
                "long_name": "Nawabs of Bengal",
                "start_year": 1717,
                "end_year": 1757
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "The Holy Quran.  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/G88NTW2D\">[Ray_Sreemani 2020]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 455,
            "polity": {
                "id": 250,
                "name": "cn_qin_emp",
                "long_name": "Qin Empire",
                "start_year": -338,
                "end_year": -207
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "Ritual and religious thought in ancient China did not seem to depend on sacred texts, though works of sayings of religious figures (e.g. Confucious) were certainly deemed as important and canonized as ‘five classics’  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8MR22ALP\">[Puett_et_al 2014]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 456,
            "polity": {
                "id": 423,
                "name": "cn_eastern_zhou_warring_states",
                "long_name": "Eastern Zhou",
                "start_year": -475,
                "end_year": -256
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "ritual and religious thought in ancient China apparently not associated with sacred texts sensu stricto (i.e. texts containing \"the word of god\"), though works of sayings of religious figures (e.g. Confucius) were certainly deemed as important and canonized as ‘five classics’  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8MR22ALP\">[Puett_et_al 2014]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 457,
            "polity": {
                "id": 711,
                "name": "om_busaidi_imamate_1",
                "long_name": "Imamate of Oman and Muscat",
                "start_year": 1749,
                "end_year": 1895
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Quran.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 458,
            "polity": {
                "id": 708,
                "name": "pt_portuguese_emp_1",
                "long_name": "Portuguese Empire - Renaissance Period",
                "start_year": 1495,
                "end_year": 1579
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"The first known printing press in Portugal, introduced during the same king’s reign, was operating by 1487. Initially Portuguese printing was confined to brief official documents; but soon more ambitious works were produced – religious and legal texts, then the Latin classics, commentaries, grammars, historical chronicles and Portuguese poetry and drama.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TKKDT5CZ\">[Disney 2009]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 459,
            "polity": {
                "id": 709,
                "name": "pt_portuguese_emp_2",
                "long_name": "Portuguese Empire - Early Modern",
                "start_year": 1640,
                "end_year": 1806
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"[T]he first (unauthorised) Portuguese translation, issued in Amsterdam, did not appear until 1681, and a complete Bible was not published in Portuguese in Portugal until the late eighteenth century.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TKKDT5CZ\">[Disney 2009]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 460,
            "polity": {
                "id": 337,
                "name": "ru_moskva_rurik_dyn",
                "long_name": "Grand Principality of Moscow, Rurikid Dynasty",
                "start_year": 1480,
                "end_year": 1613
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 461,
            "polity": {
                "id": 710,
                "name": "tz_tana",
                "long_name": "Classic Tana",
                "start_year": 1000,
                "end_year": 1498
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Presence of Islam as dominant religion suggests concomitant presence of sacred texts and religious literature, but few have survived from before the nineteenth century. The following quote specifically refers to the following periods but could likely be largely applied to this period as well: \"There is a scarcity of textual Islamic material from the sixteenth, seventeenth and even eighteenth centuries. That said, there is every reason to believe that Muslims were copying not only the Quran and ḥadīth collections, but also legal texts, most likely the Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn, which was the most widely used legal text in the entire Indian Ocean basin. Its commentaries are also likely to have been in use.\" (Bang 2017: 560)",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 462,
            "polity": {
                "id": 314,
                "name": "ua_kievan_rus",
                "long_name": "Kievan Rus",
                "start_year": 880,
                "end_year": 1242
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Bible.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 463,
            "polity": {
                "id": 535,
                "name": "ug_bunyoro_k_2",
                "long_name": "Bito Dynasty",
                "start_year": 1700,
                "end_year": 1894
            },
            "year_from": 1700,
            "year_to": 1859,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 464,
            "polity": {
                "id": 535,
                "name": "ug_bunyoro_k_2",
                "long_name": "Bito Dynasty",
                "start_year": 1700,
                "end_year": 1894
            },
            "year_from": 1860,
            "year_to": 1894,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"Literacy entered Uganda for the first time with the introduction of Islam in the late 1860’s and for nearly a decade instruction in Islam was progressing and flourishing at the royal court. When literacy was introduced into the kingdom of Buganda, it was confined to speakers of Arabic and Kiswahili. \"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/T7IMKZJJ\">[Pawliková-Vilhanová_Pawliková-Vilhanová_Moumouni 2014, p. 145]</a>  We are inferring presence for the kingdom of Bunyoro due to likely spread of literacy from the Buganda polity.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 465,
            "polity": {
                "id": 534,
                "name": "ug_bunyoro_k_1",
                "long_name": "Cwezi Dynasty",
                "start_year": 1450,
                "end_year": 1699
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "\"Literacy entered Uganda for the first time with the introduction of Islam in the late 1860’s and for nearly a decade instruction in Islam was progressing and flourishing at the royal court. When literacy was introduced into the kingdom of Buganda, it was confined to speakers of Arabic and Kiswahili.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/T7IMKZJJ\">[Pawliková-Vilhanová_Pawliková-Vilhanová_Moumouni 2014, p. 145]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 466,
            "polity": {
                "id": 773,
                "name": "mw_pre_maravi",
                "long_name": "Pre-Maravi",
                "start_year": 1151,
                "end_year": 1399
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 467,
            "polity": {
                "id": 774,
                "name": "mw_early_maravi",
                "long_name": "Early Maravi",
                "start_year": 1400,
                "end_year": 1499
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 468,
            "polity": {
                "id": 775,
                "name": "mw_northern_maravi_k",
                "long_name": "Northern Maravi Kingdom",
                "start_year": 1500,
                "end_year": 1621
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 470,
            "polity": {
                "id": 772,
                "name": "tz_east_africa_ia_2",
                "long_name": "Late East Africa Iron Age",
                "start_year": 800,
                "end_year": 1150
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 471,
            "polity": {
                "id": 716,
                "name": "tz_early_tana_1",
                "long_name": "Early Tana 1",
                "start_year": 500,
                "end_year": 749
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "unknown",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 472,
            "polity": {
                "id": 717,
                "name": "tz_early_tana_2",
                "long_name": "Early Tana 2",
                "start_year": 750,
                "end_year": 999
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 473,
            "polity": {
                "id": 223,
                "name": "ma_almoravid_dyn",
                "long_name": "Almoravids",
                "start_year": 1035,
                "end_year": 1150
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Koran.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 474,
            "polity": {
                "id": 284,
                "name": "hu_avar_khaganate",
                "long_name": "Avar Khaganate",
                "start_year": 586,
                "end_year": 822
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "unknown",
            "comment": "no data.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 475,
            "polity": {
                "id": 210,
                "name": "et_aksum_emp_2",
                "long_name": "Axum II",
                "start_year": 350,
                "end_year": 599
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"The Bible is written on parchment and in Ge'ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/R5JM2PGZ\">[Murray 2009]</a>  \"With a unique written language, Ge'ez, Aksum possessed its own translation of the Bible, and its libraries contained important Christian documents. Many such works were translated by Aksum's Coptic monks between the fifth and seventh centuries. The pre-Christian Book of Enoch exists only in Ge'ez. Aksum scholars and scribes also taught calligraphy and manuscript illumination - decoration with designs, colors, and minature images, and they highly esteemed the composition of poetry.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/R5JM2PGZ\">[Murray 2009]</a>  Around the 5th century CE the Bible was translated into Geez.  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/Z5V2LQXW\">[Anfray 1981, p. 376]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 476,
            "polity": {
                "id": 213,
                "name": "et_aksum_emp_3",
                "long_name": "Axum III",
                "start_year": 600,
                "end_year": 800
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"The Bible is written on parchment and in Ge'ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/R5JM2PGZ\">[Murray 2009]</a>  \"With a unique written language, Ge'ez, Aksum possessed its own translation of the Bible, and its libraries contained important Christian documents. Many such works were translated by Aksum's Coptic monks between the fifth and seventh centuries. The pre-Christian Book of Enoch exists only in Ge'ez. Aksum scholars and scribes also taught calligraphy and manuscript illumination - decoration with designs, colors, and minature images, and they highly esteemed the composition of poetry.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/R5JM2PGZ\">[Murray 2009]</a>  Around the 5th century CE the Bible was translated into Geez.  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/Z5V2LQXW\">[Anfray 1981, p. 376]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 477,
            "polity": {
                "id": 379,
                "name": "mm_bagan",
                "long_name": "Bagan",
                "start_year": 1044,
                "end_year": 1287
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": null,
            "description": "\"a place where at one time resided and moved about thousands of monks ... reciting the sacred texts or delivering sermons...\"§REF§(Soni 1991, xxvii) Sujata Soni. 1991. Evolution of Stupas in Burma. Pagan Period: 11th to 13th centuries A.D. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Delhi.§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 478,
            "polity": {
                "id": 226,
                "name": "ib_banu_ghaniya",
                "long_name": "Banu Ghaniya",
                "start_year": 1126,
                "end_year": 1227
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Koran",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 479,
            "polity": {
                "id": 308,
                "name": "bg_bulgaria_early",
                "long_name": "Bulgaria - Early",
                "start_year": 681,
                "end_year": 864
            },
            "year_from": 681,
            "year_to": 813,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 480,
            "polity": {
                "id": 308,
                "name": "bg_bulgaria_early",
                "long_name": "Bulgaria - Early",
                "start_year": 681,
                "end_year": 864
            },
            "year_from": 814,
            "year_to": 864,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Bible.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 481,
            "polity": {
                "id": 312,
                "name": "bg_bulgaria_medieval",
                "long_name": "Bulgaria - Middle",
                "start_year": 865,
                "end_year": 1018
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Bible.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 482,
            "polity": {
                "id": 400,
                "name": "in_chandela_k",
                "long_name": "Chandela Kingdom",
                "start_year": 950,
                "end_year": 1308
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 483,
            "polity": {
                "id": 401,
                "name": "in_chauhana_dyn",
                "long_name": "Chauhana Dynasty",
                "start_year": 973,
                "end_year": 1192
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 484,
            "polity": {
                "id": 399,
                "name": "in_chaulukya_dyn",
                "long_name": "Chaulukya Dynasty",
                "start_year": 941,
                "end_year": 1245
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Hindu and Jain scriptures.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 485,
            "polity": {
                "id": 246,
                "name": "cn_chu_dyn_spring_autumn",
                "long_name": "Chu Kingdom - Spring and Autumn Period",
                "start_year": -740,
                "end_year": -489
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "Does not seem to have been part of Ancient Chinese religious system in general to have sacred texts, not including collected sayings of wise men and sages (Confucius, etc.), since these seem to be more philosophical than ‘word of god’ type works.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 486,
            "polity": {
                "id": 249,
                "name": "cn_chu_k_warring_states",
                "long_name": "Chu Kingdom - Warring States Period",
                "start_year": -488,
                "end_year": -223
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "ritual and religious thought in ancient China apparently not associated with sacred texts sensu stricto (i.e. texts containing \"the word of god\"), though works of sayings of religious figures (e.g. Confucius) were certainly deemed as important and canonized as ‘five classics’  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8MR22ALP\">[Puett_et_al 2014]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 487,
            "polity": {
                "id": 299,
                "name": "ru_crimean_khanate",
                "long_name": "Crimean Khanate",
                "start_year": 1440,
                "end_year": 1783
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 488,
            "polity": {
                "id": 307,
                "name": "fr_aquitaine_duc_1",
                "long_name": "Duchy of Aquitaine I",
                "start_year": 602,
                "end_year": 768
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 489,
            "polity": {
                "id": 54,
                "name": "pa_cocle_1",
                "long_name": "Early Greater Coclé",
                "start_year": 200,
                "end_year": 700
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "Panamanian societies were non-literate before Spanish contact.  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/IPHPU92K\">[Mendizábal_Archibold 2004, p. 14]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 490,
            "polity": {
                "id": 774,
                "name": "mw_early_maravi",
                "long_name": "Early Maravi",
                "start_year": 1400,
                "end_year": 1499
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "The following suggests that writing did not develop indigenously in the region. \"The earliest of the written documents on Malawi go back to the sixteenth century. Some adventurous Portuguese explorers and traders who periodically passed through central and southern Malawi as they sought minerals and other resources in the interior of the region wrote these documents.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/IT7NS8P7\">[Juwayeyi 2020]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 491,
            "polity": {
                "id": 533,
                "name": "ug_early_nyoro",
                "long_name": "Early Nyoro",
                "start_year": 900,
                "end_year": 1449
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "\"Literacy entered Uganda for the first time with the introduction of Islam in the late 1860’s and for nearly a decade instruction in Islam was progressing and flourishing at the royal court. When literacy was introduced into the kingdom of Buganda, it was confined to speakers of Arabic and Kiswahili. \"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/T7IMKZJJ\">[Pawliková-Vilhanová_Pawliková-Vilhanová_Moumouni 2014, p. 145]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 492,
            "polity": {
                "id": 716,
                "name": "tz_early_tana_1",
                "long_name": "Early Tana 1",
                "start_year": 500,
                "end_year": 749
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "unknown",
            "comment": "  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/E7KV5BEU\">[Ray_Wynne-Jones_LaViolette 2017]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 493,
            "polity": {
                "id": 717,
                "name": "tz_early_tana_2",
                "long_name": "Early Tana 2",
                "start_year": 750,
                "end_year": 999
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Presence of Islam as dominant religion suggests concomitant presence of sacred texts and religious literature; however, few have survived from before the nineteenth century (Bang 2017).",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 494,
            "polity": {
                "id": 429,
                "name": "mr_wagadu_1",
                "long_name": "Early Wagadu Empire",
                "start_year": 250,
                "end_year": 700
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "IFR",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "absent",
            "comment": "\"There are no written records of any description to throw light on the history of West Africa before 900 A.D.\"   <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TNTPK7C6\">[Bovill 1995, p. 51]</a>  \"The West Africans who laid the foundations of their medieval empires during the centuries before 900 C.E. did not develop a written language they could use to record historical events.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4YF5GBBK\">[Conrad 2010, p. 13]</a>  Oldest example of writing in West Africa c1100 CE tomb inscription at Gao.  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/6H9ES35T\">[Davidson 1998, p. 44]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 495,
            "polity": {
                "id": 363,
                "name": "af_ghaznavid_emp",
                "long_name": "Ghaznavid Empire",
                "start_year": 998,
                "end_year": 1040
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 496,
            "polity": {
                "id": 218,
                "name": "ma_idrisid_dyn",
                "long_name": "Idrisids",
                "start_year": 789,
                "end_year": 917
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "Koran.",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 497,
            "polity": {
                "id": 369,
                "name": "ir_jayarid_khanate",
                "long_name": "Jayarid Khanate",
                "start_year": 1336,
                "end_year": 1393
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "UND",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "uncoded",
            "comment": "'♠ Religious literature ♣ inferred present",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 498,
            "polity": {
                "id": 407,
                "name": "in_kakatiya_dyn",
                "long_name": "Kakatiya Dynasty",
                "start_year": 1175,
                "end_year": 1324
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "\"During the Kakatiya period more than one Ramayana were composed in Telugu.\"  <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XJ8CF927\">[Sastry 1978, p. 51]</a>",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 499,
            "polity": {
                "id": 406,
                "name": "in_kalachuri_emp",
                "long_name": "Kalachuris of Kalyani",
                "start_year": 1157,
                "end_year": 1184
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": null,
            "description": "The \"age-old religious writings in Sanskrit\" rejected by the Virashaivists §REF§J.P. Schouten, Revolution of the Mystics (1995), p. 4§REF§."
        },
        {
            "id": 500,
            "polity": {
                "id": 389,
                "name": "in_kamarupa_k",
                "long_name": "Kamarupa Kingdom",
                "start_year": 350,
                "end_year": 1130
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "present",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 501,
            "polity": {
                "id": 273,
                "name": "uz_kangju",
                "long_name": "Kangju",
                "start_year": -150,
                "end_year": 350
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Sacred_text",
            "sacred_text": "unknown",
            "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT",
            "description": null
        }
    ]
}