Beyond Timbuktu : An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa /
Kane, Ousmane Oumar
Beyond Timbuktu : An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Prologue -- 1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources -- 2. The Growth and Political Economy of Islamic Scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan -- 3. The Rise of Clerical Lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan -- 4. Curriculum and Knowledge Transmission -- 5. Shaping an Islamic Space of Meaning: The Discursive Tradition -- 6. Islamic Education and the Colonial Encounter -- 7. Modern Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning -- 8. Islam in the Post-colonial Public Sphere -- 9. Arabophones Triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic Rule -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674969377
10.4159/9780674969377 doi
Education--Political aspects--History.--Africa, West
Education--History.--Africa, West
Islamic learning and scholarship--History.--Africa, West
Islamic learning and scholarship--History.--Mali--Tombouctou
HISTORY / Africa / West.
DT474.5 / .K36 2016eb
966.0088/297
Beyond Timbuktu : An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Prologue -- 1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources -- 2. The Growth and Political Economy of Islamic Scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan -- 3. The Rise of Clerical Lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan -- 4. Curriculum and Knowledge Transmission -- 5. Shaping an Islamic Space of Meaning: The Discursive Tradition -- 6. Islamic Education and the Colonial Encounter -- 7. Modern Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning -- 8. Islam in the Post-colonial Public Sphere -- 9. Arabophones Triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic Rule -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674969377
10.4159/9780674969377 doi
Education--Political aspects--History.--Africa, West
Education--History.--Africa, West
Islamic learning and scholarship--History.--Africa, West
Islamic learning and scholarship--History.--Mali--Tombouctou
HISTORY / Africa / West.
DT474.5 / .K36 2016eb
966.0088/297