Author: John O. Hunwick Publisher: ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 164
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Deals with the developments after colonialism in West Africa, the result of Arab nationalism on West African politics, the roles of Israelis in helping to develop the new states, and the politics of OPEC and the rise of Islamic fanaticism.
Author: Fallou Ngom Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190279869 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the tradition of writing African languages using the Arabic script 'Ajami and the rise of the Muridiyya order of Islamic Sufi in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of 'Ajami and the flourishing of the Muridiyya are entwined.
Author: Nehemia Levtzion Publisher: Variorum Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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The impact of Islam in sub-Saharan West Africa has been profound, but has been experienced very differently at different times and places. In these articles Professor Levtzion explores the varying patterns of Islamization as Islam spread south, its influence in social and economic terms as well as religious, and its role in the processes of state formation, and has developed a new approach to the historiography of the desert-sahel interface. Particular studies focus on the contrasts between rural and urban Islam and the roles of merchants and clerics, and on the Islamic revolutions of the 18th century. Others cast new light on trans-Saharan traffic, from the Jewish traders of Sijilmasa in the 10th century, to the relations between Mamluk Egypt and West Africa in the 16th. A final set of articles concentrates on the Arabic sources, both internal and external, which are fundamental for the history of the region.
Author: Ousmane Oumar Kane Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674969359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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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.
Author: John Ralph Willis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315297329 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
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First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan. This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
Author: Nehemia Levtzion Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 164
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From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in ""Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History"". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
Author: Ingvar Svanberg Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136113304 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 476
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Today about 85 per cent of the world population of Muslims live in areas outside the Arab world, and due to population growth, missionary endeavours and migration, the number of Muslims in these areas is rising rapidly. This volume presents the spread and character of Islam in many non-Arab countries, focusing particularly on the contemporary situation. The book deals with the great variety and complexity that characterize Islam outside the Arab world, with Sufism (the predominant form of Islam in most non-Arab Muslim countries), and with the growing significance of Islamism which challenges secularism and Sufi forms of Islam.
Author: John O. Hunwick
Author: Fallou Ngom
Author: Rudolph T. Ware
Author: Peter B. Clarke
Author: Nehemia Levtzion
Author: Ousmane Oumar Kane
Author: John Ralph Willis
Author: Nehemia Levtzion
Author: Nehemia Levtzion
Author: Ingvar Svanberg