The transmission of learning in Islamic Africa /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | Islam in Africa ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Islam in Africa: challenging the perceived wisdom / Scott S. Reese
- Sufi networks and the social contexts for scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660-1830 / David Gutelius
- Inkwells of the Sahara: reflections on the production of Islamic knowledge in Bilād Shinqīt / Ghislaine Lydon
- The Shurafā' and the 'Blacksmith': the role of the Idaw 'Alī of Mauritania in the career of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900-75) / Rüdiger Seesemann
- Mass Islamic education and emergence of female 'ulamā' in Northern Nigeria: background, trends, and consequences / Muhammad S. Umar
- Murtadā al-Zabīdī (1732-91) and the Africans: Islamic discourse and scholarly networks in the late eighteenth century / Stefan Reichmuth
- Goths in the land of the blacks: a preliminary survey of the Ka'ti Library in in Timbuktu / Albrecht Hofheinz
- From Wādī Mīzāb to Unguja: Zanzibar's scholarly links / Philip Sadgrove
- "Making people think": the Ramadan lectures of Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir in Mombasa (1419 A.H.) / Kai Kresse
- The adventures of Abū Hārith: Muslim travel writing and navigating the modern in Colonial East Africa / Scott S. Reese
- Zanzibar: some nineteenth-century Arabic writings on healing / Lorenzo Declich
- "Small World": Neo Sufi interconnexions between the Maghrib, the Hijaz and Southeast Asia / R.S. O'Fahey.