Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa

1. Verfasser: Kane, Ousmane , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: 282 pages ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
Islamic learning and scholarship > Africa, West > History.
Islamic learning and scholarship > Mali > Tombouctou > History.
Education > Africa, West > History.
Education > Political aspects > Africa, West > History.
Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Africa, West > Civilization > Islamic influences.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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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