Beyond Timbuktu

Beyond Timbuktu
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780674969353
ISBN-13 : 0674969359
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Book Synopsis Beyond Timbuktu by : Ousmane Oumar Kane

Download or read book Beyond Timbuktu written by Ousmane Oumar Kane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.


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