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Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Muslims and Chiefs in West Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131529544X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Islam in West Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
Author : John Allembillah Azumah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780746857
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa written by John Allembillah Azumah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and subjugated the African people, Islam fitted comfortably into the indigenous landscape. Instead, this penetrating account reveals Muslim settlers to be as guilty of enforcing slavery and conversion as those of their more maligned sister tradition. Only with an acknowledgement of the true roles of both faiths in African history, suggests Azumah, can the people of both traditions move themselves and their continent towards a new future of tolerance and self-awareness.
Author : Rudolph T. Ware
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614316
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Walking Qurʼan written by Rudolph T. Ware and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Author : René A. Bravmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521201926
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa written by René A. Bravmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers have assumed that the spread of the Islamic faith has tended to weaken and undermine the foundations of traditional African society and culture. In this interesting and original study Professor Bravmann re-examines and refutes the assumption that the aniconic attitudes of Islam, especially the prohibition of representational imagery, have had a detrimental effect on the visual arts in the areas of West Africa influenced by this universalistic faith. The strength and flexibility of West African societies and their art forms is clearly revealed in the major part of this study, which is devoted to a detailed examination of the impact of Islam upon traditional art in the Cercle de Bondoukou and west central areas of Ghana. The text is illustrated with numerous photographs showing a variety of art forms and masquerades in the region.
Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275551
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa written by Michelle Apotsos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004618007
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Early State in African Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on "The Early State in Africa", conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent.
Author : Nathan Samwini
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825889913
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (899 download)
Download or read book The Muslim Resurgence in Ghana Since 1950 written by Nathan Samwini and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the place of Islam in Ghanaian society, with particular attention to the role of the dominant orthodox' Tijyniyya tradition, and its relation to newer groups which have become increasingly prominent since 1950. These are characterized as part of a Muslim resurgence'. The two groups given particular attention are the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission (Amm) and the Ahlus Sunna wal-Jama'a. Nathan Samwini holds a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Birmingham (UK) and is ordained minister of the Methodist Church in Ghana.
Author : Michael A. Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236585
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book A History of the Muslim World written by Michael A. Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity. After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific. At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.
Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315297329
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Studies in West African Islamic History written by John Ralph Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan. This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
Author : Christopher Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541121
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)
Download or read book France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 written by Christopher Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.
Author : Dieudonne Komla Nuekpe
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839739495
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Lived Islam in Africa and Its Missiological Implications for Pentecostals written by Dieudonne Komla Nuekpe and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam and Christianity are often presented as violent rivals facing each other across a gulf of insurmountable differences. Yet if Christians are to effectively engage Muslims with the gospel, they must learn to build bridges across this divide. This study explores the Muslim presence in Ghana, a nation once believed to be resistant to Islam, and analyses the missiological implications for Pentecostals, the fastest growing group of Christians in the country. Dr. Dieudonne Komla Nuekpe examines the shared spiritual heritage of Ghanaian Pentecostals and folk Muslims within the broader context of African traditional religion. He proposes that this shared heritage – with its emphasis on supernatural encounters and the spiritual realm – can provide common ground for Pentecostals seeking to peacefully and respectfully engage Muslims with the gospel. Identifying the existential, experiential, and theological needs at the heart of folk Islam, this book offers a practical guide for constructive Muslim-Christian engagement in Ghana and beyond. This study also challenges missiologists – both scholars and practitioners – to engage in critical contextualization that considers a culture’s indigenous religious practices when seeking to build bridges to the gospel.
Author : Abdoulaye Sounaye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311073320X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa written by Abdoulaye Sounaye and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.
Author : Ousman Murzik Kobo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004215255
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms written by Ousman Murzik Kobo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351972456
Total Pages : 2714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: International Islam written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 2714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world. Spanning continents from Africa, to Asia, North America and Europe, and ranging from 19th century ethnographical studies to modern day historical research, these titles not only demonstrate the diversity within this global religion, but also how the study of Islam has changed over time. The titles in this set will be of interest to those studying the history of Islam as well as those fascinated by the study of religion and international communities itself.
Author : Michael Crowder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000958116
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book West Africa Under Colonial Rule written by Michael Crowder and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the colonialists that their rule was generally beneficial. Penetrating descriptions of the colonial economic system are given, and the quality of colonial administration is analysed, as well as the impact of two World Wars.
Author : Daniel F. McCall
Publisher : Boston : African Studies Center, Boston University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Aspects of West African Islam written by Daniel F. McCall and published by Boston : African Studies Center, Boston University. This book was released on 1971 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
