Writing boards and blackboards are emblematic of two radically different styles of education in Islam. The essays in this lively volume address various aspects of the expanding and evolving range of educational choices available to Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors fro…
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Entre los siglos XVI y XVIII, los europeos lucharon por entender su identidad de la misma manera que nosotros lo hacemos como individuos: comparándose con los demás. En Savages, Romans, and Despots, Robert Launay nos lleva a un fascinante recorrido de la historia moderna en un i…
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In Savages, Romans, and Despots, Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour of early modern and modern hist…
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In Savages, Romans, and Despots, Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour of early modern and modern hist…
Mande (Mandingo) is the name of a West African language and of its native speakers who, as a widely dispersed trading diaspora, were responsible for diffusing Islam throughout much of the western Sudan. Their homeland lay in the mediaeval empire of Mali, which, at its apogee in …
Islamic education has been an essential component of Islam in West Africa since its introduction by the fourth/tenth century. The celebrated Moroccan traveller Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (d. 770 or 779/1368 or 1377), who visited the empire of Mali in the eighth/fourteenth century, noted with a…