Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Kane

Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Ousmane Kane

296 pages • hardcover • 2016

2 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West A...

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