Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Transliteration
Prologue
1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources
2. The Growth and Political Economy of Islamic Scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan
3. The Rise of Clerical Lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan
4. Curriculum and Knowledge Transmission
5. Shaping an Islamic Space of Meaning: The Discursive Tradition
6. Islamic Education and the Colonial Encounter
7. Modern Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning
8. Islam in the Post-colonial Public Sphere
9. Arabophones Triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic Rule
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index