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      Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'di’s Ta'rikh Al-sudan down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents

      John Hunwick

      The principal text translated in this volume is the Tarikh Al-suddan of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sa di. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu…

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      Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4: Writings of Western Sudanic Africa

      John Hunwick

      A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria,including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings.

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      West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World

      Providing an overview of the West Africa’s history from medieval times to the twentieth century, this study traces the developments following colonialism; the effects of Arab nationalism on West African…

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      Jews of a Saharan Oasis

      A study of a single Jewish community in the North-Western Sahara which provides an African-based refutation to the myth of a pre-Zionist Golden Era between Muslims and Jews. It examines…

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      Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 1: Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c. 1900

      This volume provides a survey of Muslim authors writing in Arabic in Eastern Sudanic Africa (mainly the modern Sudan) until approximately 1900. It comprises 12 chapters organized by theme or…

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      The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Papers on History and Society Ghanaian and Islamic in Honor of Ivor Wilks

      A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.

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      The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam

      From the ninth to the early 20th century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were…

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      The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam

      From the ninth to the early 20th century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were…

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      Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal

      Khadim Mbacke

      This book is an objective study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong intrenchment…

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      The Epistle of Christ: Short Sermons For the Sundays of the Year on Texts from the Epistles

      Fr Michael Andrew Chapman

      This book consists of a series of short sermons based on the epistles throughout the Liturgical Year. Originally published in 1927, it was written by Fr. Michael Andrew Chapman a…

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      Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 2: Writings of Central Sudanic Africa

      This work is the first comprehensive guide to the Arabic-Islamic writing of Nigeria and neighbouring countries, listing all known authors, their works, manuscripts and published editions and translations. An initial…

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