The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa
Biographical note
Scott S. Reese, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Arizona University.
Readership
All those interested in the history of Africa, Islamic studies or intellectual history.
Reviews
'Generally speaking, this volume has succeeded in correcting many of the unsavoury stereotypes exposited in Western scholarship about Africa south of the Maghreb and has convincingly demonstrated that African Muslim authors are no less encyclopaedic and productive as their models from mainland Islam.' [Its] significance[...]lies not only in its analytical and methodical treatment of the subjects discussed, but also in its remarkable coverage of the East, West and North Africa.'.Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Journal of Oriental and African Studies 2008
Table of contents
Preface—John O. Hunwick
Introduction: Islam in Africa: Challenging the Perceived
Wisdom, Scott S. Reese
Chapter One: Sufi Networks and the Social Contexts for Scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660–1830, David Gutelius
Chapter Two: Inkwells of the Sahara: Reflections on the Production of Islamic Knowledge in Bilàd Shinqì†, Ghislaine Lydon
Chapter Three: The Shurafà’ and the ‘Blacksmith’: The Role of the Idaw ‘Ali of Mauritania in the Career of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (1900–75), Rüdiger Seesemann
Chapter Four: Mass Islamic Education and Emergence of Female ‘ulama’ in Northern Nigeria: Background, Trends, and Consequences, Muhammad S. Umar
Chapter Five: Murta∂a al-Zabidi (1732–91) and the Africans: Islamic Discourse and Scholarly Networks in the Late Eighteenth Century , Stefan Reichmuth
Chapter Six: Goths in the Land of the Blacks: A Preliminary Survey of the Ka’ti Library in Timbuktu, Albrecht Hofheinz
Chapter Seven: From Wadi Mizab to Unguja: Zanzibar’s Scholarly Links, Philip Sadgrove
Chapter Eight: “Making people think”: The Ramadan Lectures of Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir in Mombasa (1419 A.H.), Kai Kresse
Chapter Nine: The Adventures of Abu Oarith: Muslim Travel Writing and Navigating the Modern in Colonial East Africa, Scott S. Reese
Chapter Ten: Zanzibar: Some Nineteenth-Century Arabic Writings on Healing, Lorenzo Declich
Chapter Eleven: “Small World”: Neo-Sufi Interconnexions
Between the Maghrib, the Hijaz and Southeast Asia, R.S. O’Fahey
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: Islam in Africa: Challenging the Perceived
Wisdom, Scott S. Reese
Chapter One: Sufi Networks and the Social Contexts for Scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660–1830, David Gutelius
Chapter Two: Inkwells of the Sahara: Reflections on the Production of Islamic Knowledge in Bilàd Shinqì†, Ghislaine Lydon
Chapter Three: The Shurafà’ and the ‘Blacksmith’: The Role of the Idaw ‘Ali of Mauritania in the Career of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (1900–75), Rüdiger Seesemann
Chapter Four: Mass Islamic Education and Emergence of Female ‘ulama’ in Northern Nigeria: Background, Trends, and Consequences, Muhammad S. Umar
Chapter Five: Murta∂a al-Zabidi (1732–91) and the Africans: Islamic Discourse and Scholarly Networks in the Late Eighteenth Century , Stefan Reichmuth
Chapter Six: Goths in the Land of the Blacks: A Preliminary Survey of the Ka’ti Library in Timbuktu, Albrecht Hofheinz
Chapter Seven: From Wadi Mizab to Unguja: Zanzibar’s Scholarly Links, Philip Sadgrove
Chapter Eight: “Making people think”: The Ramadan Lectures of Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir in Mombasa (1419 A.H.), Kai Kresse
Chapter Nine: The Adventures of Abu Oarith: Muslim Travel Writing and Navigating the Modern in Colonial East Africa, Scott S. Reese
Chapter Ten: Zanzibar: Some Nineteenth-Century Arabic Writings on Healing, Lorenzo Declich
Chapter Eleven: “Small World”: Neo-Sufi Interconnexions
Between the Maghrib, the Hijaz and Southeast Asia, R.S. O’Fahey
Notes on Contributors
Index
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