Nehemia Levtzion

Islam in West Africa

Religion, Society and Politics to 1800

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion's major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781138239586
• ISBN-10: 1138239585
• Artikelnr.: 53165224

Autorenporträt

Nehemia Levtzion

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Islamization; 1. Patterns of Islamization in West Africa 2.
Slavery and Islamization in Africa: a comparative study; Islam in Politics:
The Role of the 'Ulama'; 3. Islam in West African politics: accommodation
and tension between the 'ulama' and the political authorities 4.
Sociopolitics roles of Muslim clerics and scholars in West Africa 5.
Merchants versus scholars and clerics in West Africa: differential and
complementary roles; Background to the Islamic Revolutions; 6. Rural and
urban Islam in West Africa: an introductory essay 7. The eighteenth
century: background to the Islamic revolutions in West Africa 8. Eighteenth
century renewal and reform in Islam: the role of sufi turuq in West Africa
9. Notes on the origins of Islamic militancy in the Futa Jallon;
Historical Studies; 10. Berber nomads and Sudanese states: the
historiography of the desert-Sahel interface 11. The Jews of Sijilmasa and
the Saharan trade 12. 'Abd Allah b Yasin and the Almoravids 13. Mamluk
Egypt and Takrur (West Africa); Textual Studies; 14. Ibn-Hawqal, the
cheque, and Awdaghost 15. Ancient Ghana: a reassessment of some Arabic
sources 16. The twelfth-century anonymous Kitab al-Istibsar: a history of a
text 17. The thirteenth- and fourteenth-century kings of Mali 18. A
seventeenth century chronicle by Ibn al-Mukhtar 19. Early
nineteenth-century Arabic manuscripts from Kumasi; Index