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Beyond Timbuktu : An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674969377
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 966.0088/297 23
LOC classification:
  • DT474.5 .K36 2016eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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