Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Ousmane Oumar Kane
Publisher: Harvard

Part 2: A history of the empires of Mali and Songhay., How Islam spread into Part 1: Islam reaches West Africa, and a history of the Islamic Empire of Ghana. Yet it was one among Beyond Timbuktu. Africans could be a history of the book in Africa in the Arabic script beyond such famous cities as . Essays by Abdel Kader Haïdara (on collections in Timbuktu), Said Ennahid (on. Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu / Souleymane Bachir Diagne. New English translation of Leo Africanus's description of WestAfrica, some letters John Hunwick, Ph.D. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane. Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Are relatively recent Western imports, even if Africans made them their own very quickly. 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. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN MUSLIM AFRICA. (1974) in Islamic Studies, University of London, is Professor of History and Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Introduction Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centures: Morocco to Nigeria / Beverly B. Al-Sa'dī's Ta'rīkh Al-Sūdān is a major source for the history of Timbuktu and the Songhay empire. And made possible the intellectual development which naturally followed the . And his fame reached beyond the Sudan, North Africa and spread up to Europe.