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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453136603321

Autore

Kane Ousmane

Titolo

Non-Europhone intellectuals [[electronic resource] /] / Ousmane Oumar Kane, translated from French by Victoria Bawtree

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Science Research in Africa, c2012

ISBN

2-86978-549-6

1-283-63978-5

2-86978-550-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 p.)

Collana

CODESRIA book series Non-Europhone intellectuals

Altri autori (Persone)

BawtreeVictoria <1934->

Disciplina

297.09

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Africa

Islamic education - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Note on Transliteration""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Islamic Library in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""3. Origins of the Islamic Scholarly Tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""4. The Development of acjami Literature""; ""5. Esoteric Knowledge and Exoteric Knowledge""; ""6. Political/Intellectual Revolutions""; ""7. European Colonization and the Transformation of Islamic Education""; ""8. Modernization of the Islamic Educational System""

""9. Sub-Saharan African Arabists and Higher Education in the Arab World""""10. Arabists and Islamism""; ""11. Conclusion""; ""Appendix I - A Research Project ""; ""Appendix II - Some Elements of the Corpus of Traditional Arab-Islamic Teaching""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Back cover ""

Sommario/riassunto

The history of Arabic writing spans a period of eight hundred years in sub-Saharan Africa. Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts in Arabic or Ajami (African languages written with the Arabic script) are preserved in public libraries and private collections in sub-Saharan Africa. This 'Islamic Library' includes historical, devotional, pedagogical, polemical



and political writings, most of which have not yet been adequately studied. This book, Non-Europhone Intellectuals, studies the research carried out on the Islamic library and shows that Muslim intellectuals, in West Africa in particular, hav