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Author | : Ousmane Oumar Kane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674969359 |
Download Beyond Timbuktu Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Beyond Timbuktu charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day, examining the shifting contexts that have influenced the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge—and shaped the sometimes conflicting interpretations of Muslim intellectuals—over the course of centuries. Highlighting the significant breadth and versatility of the Muslim intellectual tradition in sub-Saharan Africa, Ousmane Kane corrects lingering misconceptions in both the West and the Middle East that Africa’s Muslim heritage represents a minor thread in Islam’s larger tapestry. West African Muslims have never been isolated. To the contrary, their connection with Muslims worldwide is robust and longstanding. The Sahara was not an insuperable barrier but a bridge that allowed the Arabo-Berbers of the North to sustain relations with West African Muslims through trade, diplomacy, and intellectual and spiritual exchange. The West African tradition of Islamic learning has grown in tandem with the spread of Arabic literacy, making Arabic the most widely spoken language in Africa today. In the postcolonial period, dramatic transformations in West African education, together with the rise of media technologies and the ever-evolving public roles of African Muslim intellectuals, continue to spread knowledge of Islam throughout the continent.
Author | : Zachary Valentine Wright |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004289461 |
Download Living Knowledge in West African Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d.1975, Senegal). With millions of followers throughout Africa and the world, the community arguably represents one of the twentieth century’s most successful Islamic revivals. Niasse’s followers, members of the Tijāniyya Sufi order, gave particular attention to the widespread transmission of the experiential knowledge (maʿrifa) of God. They also worked to articulate a global Islamic identity in the crucible of African decolonization. The central argument of this book is that West African Sufism is legible only with an appreciation of centuries of Islamic knowledge specialization in the region. Sufi masters and disciples reenacted and deepened preexisting teacher-student relationships surrounding the learning of core Islamic disciplines, such as the Qurʾān and jurisprudence. Learning Islam meant the transformative inscription of sacred knowledge in the student’s very being, a disposition acquired in the master’s exemplary physical presence. Sufism did not undermine traditional Islamic orthodoxy: the continued transmission of Sufi knowledge has in fact preserved and revived traditional Islamic learning in West Africa.
Author | : Rudolph T. Ware |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1469614316 |
Download The Walking Qurʼan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Author | : Christopher Harrison |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521541121 |
Download France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.
Author | : John O. Hunwick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Deals with the developments after colonialism in West Africa, the result of Arab nationalism on West African politics, the roles of Israelis in helping to develop the new states, and the politics of OPEC and the rise of Islamic fanaticism.
Author | : Sean Hanretta |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521899710 |
Download Islam and Social Change in French West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.
Author | : Bruce S. Hall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107002876 |
Download A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since.
Author | : Michelle Apotsos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317275551 |
Download Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.
Author | : Nehemia Levtzion |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 131529544X |
Download Islam in West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
Author | : John Spencer Trimingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1972 |
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