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Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kane, Ousmane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Africa, West--History.
- Islamic learning and scholarship.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Mali--Tombouctou--History.
- Education--Africa, West--History.
- Education.
- Education--Political aspects--Africa, West--History.
- Civilization.
- Intellectual life.
- Education--Political aspects.
- History.
- Africa, West--Intellectual life.
- Africa, West.
- Africa, West--Civilization--Islamic influences.
- West Africa.
- Mali--Tombouctou.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674969377
- 0674969375
- Publisher Number:
- 99977507478
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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