The transmission of learning in Islamic Africa / / edited by Scott S. Reese.
In a series of essays this collected volume challenges much of the conventional wisdom regarding the intellectual history of Muslim Africa. Ranging from the libraries of Early Modern Mauritania and Timbuktu to mosque lectures in contemporary Mombasa the contributors to this collection overturn many...
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| Superior document: | Islam in Africa ; 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface-John O. Hunwick
- Introduction: Islam in Africa: Challenging the Perceived
- Wisdom, Scott S. Reese
- Chapter One: Sufi Networks and the Social Contexts for Scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660-1830, David Gutelius
- Chapter Two: Inkwells of the Sahara: Reflections on the Production of Islamic Knowledge in Bilàd Shinqì†, Ghislaine Lydon
- Chapter Three: The Shurafà' and the 'Blacksmith': The Role of the Idaw 'Ali of Mauritania in the Career of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (1900-75), Rüdiger Seesemann
- Chapter Four: Mass Islamic Education and Emergence of Female 'ulama' in Northern Nigeria: Background, Trends, and Consequences, Muhammad S. Umar
- Chapter Five: Murta∂a al-Zabidi (1732-91) and the Africans: Islamic Discourse and Scholarly Networks in the Late Eighteenth Century , Stefan Reichmuth
- Chapter Six: Goths in the Land of the Blacks: A Preliminary Survey of the Ka'ti Library in Timbuktu, Albrecht Hofheinz
- Chapter Seven: From Wadi Mizab to Unguja: Zanzibar's Scholarly Links, Philip Sadgrove
- Chapter Eight: "Making people think": The Ramadan Lectures of Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir in Mombasa (1419 A.H.), Kai Kresse
- Chapter Nine: The Adventures of Abu Oarith: Muslim Travel Writing and Navigating the Modern in Colonial East Africa, Scott S. Reese
- Chapter Ten: Zanzibar: Some Nineteenth-Century Arabic Writings on Healing, Lorenzo Declich
- Chapter Eleven: "Small World": Neo-Sufi Interconnexions
- Between the Maghrib, the Hijaz and Southeast Asia, R.S. O'Fahey
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.