Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Ousmane Kane
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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Год:
2016
Издательство:
Harvard University Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
295
ISBN 10:
0674050827
ISBN 13:
9780674050822
Файл:
PDF, 2.99 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016