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.


Beyond Timbuktu
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Ousmane Oumar Kane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 K
Beyond Timbuktu
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Ousmane Kane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 K
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Joshua Hammer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-19 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of de
Timbuktu
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Marq De Villiers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-13 - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the world’s most fabled cities. Timbuktu — the name still evokes an exotic, faraway plac
Muslims Beyond the Arab World
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Fallou Ngom
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the tradition of writing African languages using the Arabic script 'Ajami and the rise of the Muridiyya order of Islamic