Beyond Timbuktu - An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Informationen zum Autor Ousmane Oumar Kane is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Klappentext 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 Africäs Muslim heritage and its influence. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ousmane Oumar Kane
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780674050822
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05082-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Afrikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Andere Weltreligionen, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, Westafrika, RELIGION / Islam / General, Afrika / Westafrika, Afrika / Religion, Kirche, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Africa / West, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Religion, Theologie, Islamic Studies, African History, West Africa, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic