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1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources

  • Ousmane Oumar Kane
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Beyond Timbuktu
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© 2017 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England

© 2017 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Note on Transliteration ix
  4. Prologue 1
  5. 1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources 21
  6. 2. The Growth and Political Economy of Islamic Scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan 41
  7. 3. The Rise of Clerical Lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan 60
  8. 4. Curriculum and Knowledge Transmission 75
  9. 5. Shaping an Islamic Space of Meaning: The Discursive Tradition 96
  10. 6. Islamic Education and the Colonial Encounter 119
  11. 7. Modern Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning 140
  12. 8. Islam in the Post-colonial Public Sphere 160
  13. 9. Arabophones Triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic Rule 178
  14. Epilogue 200
  15. Notes 211
  16. Glossary 255
  17. Acknowledgments 269
  18. Index 271
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969377-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Note on Transliteration ix
  4. Prologue 1
  5. 1. Timbuktu Studies: The Geopolitics of the Sources 21
  6. 2. The Growth and Political Economy of Islamic Scholarship in the Bilad al-Sudan 41
  7. 3. The Rise of Clerical Lineages in the Sahara and the Bilad al-Sudan 60
  8. 4. Curriculum and Knowledge Transmission 75
  9. 5. Shaping an Islamic Space of Meaning: The Discursive Tradition 96
  10. 6. Islamic Education and the Colonial Encounter 119
  11. 7. Modern Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning 140
  12. 8. Islam in the Post-colonial Public Sphere 160
  13. 9. Arabophones Triumphant: Timbuktu under Islamic Rule 178
  14. Epilogue 200
  15. Notes 211
  16. Glossary 255
  17. Acknowledgments 269
  18. Index 271
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