The transmission of learning in Islamic Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reese, Scott Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Islam in Africa ; v. 2.
Subjects:
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.