Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |
Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique |
Conselho para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais em África |
مجلس تنمية البحوث الإجتماعية في أفريقيا |
Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne (eds). The Meanings of Timbuktu, CODESRIA/HSRC, 2008, 416 p., ISBN 13 978-07969-2204-5
Number of visits: 13864 Prelims
Chapter 1 - Re/discovering Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie
Chapter 2 - Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu, Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Chapter 3 - Before Timbuktu: cities of the elder world, Roderick J McIntosh
Chatper 4 - Paper in Soudanic Africa, Jonathan M Bloom
Chapter 5 - Arabic calligraphy in West Africa, Sheila S Blair
Chapter 6 - Timbuktu and Walata: lineages and higher education, Timothy Cleaveland
Chapter 7 - Intellectual innovation and reinvention of the Sahel: the seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles, Paulo F de Moraes Farias
Chapter 8 - Ajami in Africa: the use of Arabic script in the transcription of African languages, Moulaye Hassane
Chapter 9 - Ajami literature and the study of the Sokoto Caliphate, Hamid Boboyyi
Chapter 10 - The book in the Sokoto Caliphate, Murray Last
Chapter 11 - Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Morocco to Nigeria, Beverly B Mack
Chapter 12 - The Tombouctou Manuscript Project: social history approaches, Aslam Farouk-Alli and Shaheed Mathee
Chapter 13 - The life of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, Yahya Ould el-Bara
Chapter 14 - The works of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, Mahamane Mahamoudou
Chapter 15 - A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sîdi Muhammad al-Kunti, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh
Chapter 16 - Abul Khayr al-Arawani, great scholar and pious saint, Mohamed Diagayeté
Chapter 17 - The state of manuscripts in Mali and efforts to preserve them, Abdelkader Mamma Haidara
Chapter 18 - The private libraries of Timbuktu, Ismaël Diadié Haidara & Haoua Taore
Chapter 19 - Shaykh Baghayogho al-Wangari and the Wangari Library in Timbuktu, Mukhtar bin Yahya al-Wangari
Chapter 20 - The Ahmed Baba Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies and Research, Sidi Mohammed Ould Youbba
Chapter 21 - The Arabic Literature of Africa Project, John Hunwick
Chapter 22 - The West African Arabic manuscript database, Charles C Stewart
Chapter 23 - Arabic literature in the eastern half of Africa, Sean O’Fahey
Chapter 24 - Textual sources on an Islamic African past: Arabic material in Zanzibar’s National Archive, Anne K Bang
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