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Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Hardback - 2016

by Ousmane Oumar Kane

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Hardback. New. 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.
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  • Title Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
  • Author Ousmane Oumar Kane
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Date 2016-06-07
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780674050822
  • ISBN 9780674050822 / 0674050827
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: West Africa
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress subjects Africa, West - Intellectual life, Islamic learning and scholarship - Africa,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015050589
  • Dewey Decimal Code 966.008