Islamic scholarship in Africa : new directions and global contexts /: new directions and global contexts. (2021)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Islamic scholarship in Africa : new directions and global contexts /: new directions and global contexts. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Islamic scholarship in Africa : new directions and global contexts
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Ousmane Oumar Kane.
- Editors:
- Kane, Ousmane
- Contents:
- Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar Kane; PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP; Introduction - Zachary V. Wright; The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. Wright; Muhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. Gubara; African Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi Ahmed; The Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar Kane; PART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP; Introduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike; 'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 - Ismail Warscheid; Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike; "If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-Sharif; A New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego González; The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus Kumek; PART III ISLAMIC EDUCATION; Introduction - Britta Frede; Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition inIntroduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar Kane; PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP; Introduction - Zachary V. Wright; The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. Wright; Muhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. Gubara; African Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi Ahmed; The Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar Kane; PART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP; Introduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike; 'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 - Ismail Warscheid; Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike; "If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-Sharif; A New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego González; The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus Kumek; PART III ISLAMIC EDUCATION; Introduction - Britta Frede; Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn Bolton; A New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. Cochrane; Islamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children - Hannah Hoechner; What does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta Frede; PART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITY; Introduction - Jeremy Dell; Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra Vianello; Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien Kapteijns; A Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim Ndiaye; Praise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir Hashim; CONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sall … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- Martlesham : James Currey
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 001.096091767
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa
Research -- Africa
Islamic civilization - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781787446076
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781847012319
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.612317
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