Beyond Timbuktu : : An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa / / Ousmane Oumar Kane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Kane, Ousmane Oumar,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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