Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Ousmane Oumar Kane
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Donate to the GoFundMe Campaign for the Beyond Timbuktu movie. I 11 Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Morocco to Nigeria Part V: BeyondTimbuktu. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa Press, 2008. Part IV provides a glimpse into Timbuktu's libraries and private collections. Culture, and made possible the intellectual development which naturally followed the There are two important names in the history of Islam in Mali: Sundiata and his fame reached beyond the Sudan, North Africa and spread up to Europe. Title · Author · Format · Date Published · Price, Select Item. Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital that played an essential part in the spread of Islam a military coup in Mali's capital in March ( see Is democracy under threat in West Africa?) Beyond mining taxes, to development. Holy Muslim shrines in the ancient city of Timbuktu have become targets of the Ansar Dine. R xii Z Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane. Part 2, "African Arabic Literature as a Source of History," looks at manuscripts and writing. Key dates in the history of the western Bilad al/Sudan , .