Beyond Timbuktu

An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Ousmane Oumar Kane

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ISBN 9780674050822

Publication Date: 06/07/2016

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296 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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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

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