Beyond Timbuktu

Beyond Timbuktu
ISBN-10
0674969359
ISBN-13
9780674969353
Category
History
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2016-06-07
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Ousmane Oumar Kane

Description

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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