Textual Life - Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. Textual Life considers Kamara's story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change.

Info autore

Wendell H. Marsh is an assistant professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wendell Marsh
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.10.2025
• EAN: 9780231210713
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21071-3
• Serie: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Africa / West, Islamic Studies, African History, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, West Africa, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities