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  title info:
    title: Beyond Timbuktu
    sub title: an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa
  name:
    name part: Kane, Ousmane
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 282 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "By 2013, many people worldwide had heard about Timbuktu as a center of learning where thousands of Arabic manuscripts are preserved, some of which were destroyed by fanatics during the French counteroffensive to halt the expansion of Islamists in Mali. But few people know that Timbuktu was only one of many centers of Islamic learning in precolonial West Africa. This book analyses the rise and transformation of Arabo-Islamic erudition in West Africa from the beginning of the spread of Islam through the colonial period to the twenty-first century. It highlights the contribution of Muslim scholars in the production and transmission of knowledge and in shaping state and society in West Africa. It argues that no study of the history of education or knowledge production in West Africa will be complete unless it pays attention to this intellectual tradition. The book further shows how European colonialism obstructs historiography so that we know so little about it. Finally, the book analyze the transformation of West African educational system, in the twentieth and twenty first century and shows that far from declining, the Islamic tradition of West Africa has gained vitality in the postcolonial period."--
  table of contents: Timbuktu studies: the geopolitics of the sources -- The growth and political economy of scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan -- The rise of clerical lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan -- Curriculum and knowledge transmission -- Shaping an Islamic space of meaning: the discursive tradition -- Islamic education and the colonial encounter -- Modern Islamic institutions of higher learning -- Islam in the postcolonial public sphere -- Arabophones triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic rule.
  note: Ousmane Oumar Kane.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Islamic learning and scholarship
    geographic: Africa, West
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Islamic learning and scholarship
    geographic: Mali
    geographic: Tombouctou
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Education
    geographic: Africa, West
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Africa, West
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, West
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, West
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Islamic influences
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Islamic influences
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Islamic learning and scholarship
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, West
  subject:
    geographic: Mali
    geographic: Tombouctou
  classification: DT474.5 .K36 2016
  classification: 966.0088/297
  identifier: 9780674050822
  identifier: 0674050827
  identifier: 2015050589
  record info:
    record content source: MH/DLC
    record creation date: 160105
    record change date: 20170927140123.0
    record identifier: in00003780092
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng