Contents

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