Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa /

"By 2013, many people worldwide had heard about Timbuktu as a center of learning where thousands of Arabic manuscripts are preserved, some of which were destroyed by fanatics during the French counteroffensive to halt the expansion of Islamists in Mali. But few people know that Timbuktu was onl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kane, Ousmane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Islamic learning and scholarship > Africa, West > History.
Islamic learning and scholarship > Mali > Tombouctou > History.
Education > Africa, West > History.
Education > Political aspects > Africa, West > History.
Musulmans > Savoir et érudition > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Musulmans > Savoir et érudition > Mali > Tombouctou > Histoire.
Éducation > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Éducation > Aspect politique > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Civilization > Islamic influences
Education
Education > Political aspects
Intellectual life
Islamic learning and scholarship
Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Africa, West > Civilization > Islamic influences.
Afrique occidentale > Vie intellectuelle.
Afrique occidentale > Civilisation > Influence islamique.
West Africa
Mali > Tombouctou
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Timbuktu studies: the geopolitics of the sources
  • The growth and political economy of scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan
  • The rise of clerical lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan
  • Curriculum and knowledge transmission
  • Shaping an Islamic space of meaning: the discursive tradition
  • Islamic education and the colonial encounter
  • Modern Islamic institutions of higher learning
  • Islam in the postcolonial public sphere
  • Arabophones triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic rule.

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