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Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
by Ousmane Oumar Kane
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Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Ousmane Oumar Kane on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa The Manuscripts of Timbuktu and Islamic Writing in West Africa Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Ousmane Kane’s Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa is a pioneering overview of the history of knowledge production in Islamicate West Africa The methodology Kane employs in the book can be summarized as being textuallysupported by various Islamic and Western secondary and primary sources supplemented by rich doses of theoretical commentary from a consciously personal perspective by a scholar who belongs to the region but is an authority on the subject in the Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu within a much broader tradition of Islamic learning in the region which was home to other medieval knowledge centers and which continues to advance the study of Arabic philology even today Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islams Golden Age Yet Timbuktu is not unique It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age Yet Timbuktu is not unique It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa Beyond Timbuktu charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the… Beyond Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim West The book also includes a very useful glossary of people places themes movements and institutions in Islamicate West Africa Beyond Timbuktu is wellwritten smooth and erudite raising or drawing on the main veins of scholarship and topics of discussion without drowning the reader The chapter following the prologue on Timbuktu studies disrupts this flow and feels somewhat out of place but it will be a helpful literature review for anyone interested in further reading
