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Non-Europhone intellectuals /

"This book, Non-Europhone Intellectuals, studies the research carried out on the Islamic library and shows that Muslim intellectuals, in West Africa in particular, have produced huge literature in Arabic and Ajami"--Publisher's description.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, Ousmane
Other Authors: Bawtree, Victoria, 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dakar [Senegal] : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2012]
Subjects:
Islamic civilization.
Intellectuals > Africa, West.
Muslims > Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on transliteration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Islamic library in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 3. Origins of the Islamic scholarly tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4. The development of a'jami literature
  • 5. Esoteric knowledge and exoteric knowledge
  • 6. Political/intellectual revolutions
  • 7. European colonization and the transformation of Islamic education
  • 8. Modernization of the Islamic educational system
  • 9. Sub-Saharan African Arabists and higher education in the Arab world
  • 10. Arabists and Islamism
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Appendix I. A research project
  • Appendix II. Some elements of the corpus of traditional Arab-Islamic teaching
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.