Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane.
2016
DT474.5 .K36 2016eb
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Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane.
Author
Kane, Ousmane, author.
ISBN
9780674969377 (electronic book)
0674969375 (electronic book)
9780674050822
0674050827
0674969375 (electronic book)
9780674050822
0674050827
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (282 pages)
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DT474.5 .K36 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
966.0088/297
Summary
"By 2013, many people worldwide had heard about Timbuktu as a center of learning where thousands of Arabic manuscripts are preserved, some of which were destroyed by fanatics during the French counteroffensive to halt the expansion of Islamists in Mali. But few people know that Timbuktu was only one of many centers of Islamic learning in precolonial West Africa. This book analyses the rise and transformation of Arabo-Islamic erudition in West Africa from the beginning of the spread of Islam through the colonial period to the twenty-first century. It highlights the contribution of Muslim scholars in the production and transmission of knowledge and in shaping state and society in West Africa. It argues that no study of the history of education or knowledge production in West Africa will be complete unless it pays attention to this intellectual tradition. The book further shows how European colonialism obstructs historiography so that we know so little about it. Finally, the book analyze the transformation of West African educational system, in the twentieth and twenty first century and shows that far from declining, the Islamic tradition of West Africa has gained vitality in the postcolonial period."-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Timbuktu studies: the geopolitics of the sources
The growth and political economy of scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan
The rise of clerical lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan
Curriculum and knowledge transmission
Shaping an Islamic space of meaning: the discursive tradition
Islamic education and the colonial encounter
Modern Islamic institutions of higher learning
Islam in the postcolonial public sphere
Arabophones triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic rule.
The growth and political economy of scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan
The rise of clerical lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan
Curriculum and knowledge transmission
Shaping an Islamic space of meaning: the discursive tradition
Islamic education and the colonial encounter
Modern Islamic institutions of higher learning
Islam in the postcolonial public sphere
Arabophones triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic rule.