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Muslims Beyond the Arab World
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Pages: 337
Authors: Fallou Ngom
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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the tradition of writing African languages using the Arabic script 'Ajami and the rise of the Muridiyya order of Islamic
The Walking Qurʼan
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Pages: 352
Authors: Rudolph T. Ware
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Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Beyond Timbuktu
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Authors: Ousmane Oumar Kane
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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 K
Islam in West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Nehemia Levtzion
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The impact of Islam in sub-Saharan West Africa has been profound, but has been experienced very differently at different times and places. In these articles Pro