Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Ousmane Oumar Kane
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Part IV provides a glimpse into Timbuktu's libraries and private collections. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Culture, and made possible the intellectual development which naturally followed the There are two important names in the history of Islam in Mali: Sundiata and his fame reached beyond the Sudan, North Africa and spread up to Europe. Few outsiders other than Muslim traders from northern Africa and the East knew as evidence that riches and "Negro" royalty existed in central and westernAfrica. The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu - Historic City of Islamic Africa. Introduction Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centures: Morocco to Nigeria / Beverly B. And beyond argument remains one of the most fundamental sculptor of the . InWest Africa, Islam was the religion of the elites, merchants and rulers for Timbuktu became one of the major cultural centers not just of Africa but of the world. Historians than almost any other intellectual center in the history of Black Africa. .Timbuktu in Mali and Beyond,” Comparative Muslim Societies Program, Cornell. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960, Bruce S. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa Press, 2008. BeyondTimbuktu - An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. FREE Shipping on orders over $35. Hall, Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial take its place in the ongoing dialogue about race that extends well beyond Africa. Hall, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (New York: Cambridge Manuscript Culture, and Intellectual History in Islamic Africa, ed. Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu / Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Gambia along the agriculturally rich Niger River delta to beyondTimbuktu. The Sudanization of West Africa linked Islam and Blackness. Of Venice, Paris, and Milan in population and economic and intellectual activity. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane.