Beyond Timbuktu

Beyond Timbuktu
Author: Ousmane Oumar Kane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674969359

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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.