Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mcdougall, E. Ann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with a Legacy provides an introduction to Nehemia Levtzion - scholar, mentor, colleague, friend, 'family man' - a life devoted to studying Muslim peoples and Islam in Africa.

This book was published a s aspecial issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317980896
• Artikelnr.: 57081959

Autorenporträt

E. Ann McDougall (Professor), Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada has researched social and economic history in southern Morocco and Mauritania for over thirty years. Her current project focuses on a comparative study of servile/marginal status in these regions, with attention to its importance in contemporary democratization.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Engaging with the Legacy of Nehemia Levtzion: An Introduction E. Ann
McDougall Memoirs and Memories 2. The Legacy of Nehemia Levtzion 1935-2003
3. Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Ghana: Reminiscences Ivor Wilks 4.
Memories of Nehemia Martin Klein 5. Remembering Nehemia: Personal Tributes
Roland Oliver, William F. S. Miles, Naomi Chazan, and E. Ann McDougall 6.
In Memory of Tirtza Levtzion, 1935-2007 Engaging with a Legacy 7. Breaking
New Ground in "Pagan" and "Muslim" West Africa David Robinson 8.
Neo-Sufism: Reconsidered Again John O. Voll 9. Linking Translation Theory
and African History: Domestication and Foreignization in Corpus of Early
Arabic Sources for West African History Dalton S. Collins The Ancient Ghana
and Mali Project 10. Reconceptualizing Early Ghana Susan Keech McIntosh
11. Captain of We Band of Brothers: An Archaeologist's Homage to Nehemia
Levtzion Roderick J. McIntosh 12. From the Banan Tree of Kouroussa: Mapping
the Landscape in Mande Traditional History David C. Conrad Developing
"Themes": History of Islam in Africa 13. Christians and Muslims in
Nineteenth Century Liberia: From Ideological Antagonism to Practical
Toleration Yekutiel Gershoni 14. From the Colony to the Post-colony: Sufis
and Wahhâbîsts in Senegal and Nigeria Irit Back 15. The Philosophy of the
Revolution: Thoughts on Modernizing Islamic Schools in Ghana David
Owusu-Ansah and Abdulai Iddrisu 16. A Question of Beginnings Kenneth W.
Harrow 17. "Islamic Music in Africa" as a Tool for African Studies Michael
Frishkopf 18. Hidden in the Household: Gender and Class in the Study of
Islam in Africa E. Ann McDougall 19. The Last Word from Nehemiah: Resurgent
Islamic Fundamentalism as an Integrative Factor in the Politics of Africa
and the Middle East Nehemia Levtzion 20. Epilogue John Voll