Beyond Timbuktu. An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa, Hardback - Ousmane Oumar Kane

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...

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Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Do you want to be a wealthy Muslim? Would you like to know who the successful Muslims are and what are they doing? If so, you are at the right plac...

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A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutionsPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Enzo TraversoNumber of page...

Publisher: Mason Crest PublishersAuthor(s): Annelise HobbsNumber of pages: 80Collection: Discovering AfricaPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 209 x ...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): A. G. (University of Cambridge) HopkinsIllustration(s): 17 Maps; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Tabl...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"From the far reaches ...

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, of...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hi...

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Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

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This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the Europ...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

A clear, simple and entertaining guide to the land once considered the jewel of the medieval world. Part of the adult range of Ladybird books, with...

By showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the r...

Publisher: TROPZAMAuthor(s): G. C. CookIllustration(s): illustratedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 237 x 165 x 17Cover type: ...

Reducere. Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curric...

Studies the epistemologies of two of the most influential intellectual/spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa.Illustrations: 5 ...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and the other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one o...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescoper...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

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DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

Reducere. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of th...

Reducere. The Jannah Jewels land in the ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a mystery. Someone has stolen a priceles...