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| The Meanings of Timbuktu |
Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne (eds). The Meanings of Timbuktu, CODESRIA/HSRC, 2008, 416 p., ISBN 13 978-07969-2204-5
Prelims
Prelims (PDF, 899.4 kb)
Chapter 1 - Re/discovering Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie
Chapter 1 (PDF, 540.1 kb)
Chapter 2 - Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu, Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Chapter 2 (PDF, 507.9 kb)
Chapter 3 - Before Timbuktu: cities of the elder world, Roderick J McIntosh
Chapter 3 (PDF, 685.1 kb)
Chatper 4 - Paper in Soudanic Africa, Jonathan M Bloom
Chatper 4 (PDF, 455.7 kb)
Chapter 5 - Arabic calligraphy in West Africa, Sheila S Blair
Chapter 5 (PDF, 689.8 kb)
Chapter 6 - Timbuktu and Walata: lineages and higher education, Timothy Cleaveland
Chapter 6 (PDF, 531.8 kb)
Chapter
7 - Intellectual innovation and reinvention of the Sahel: the
seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles, Paulo F de Moraes Farias
Chapter 7 (PDF, 1 Mb)
Chapter 8 - Ajami in Africa: the use of Arabic script in the transcription of African languages, Moulaye Hassane
Chapter 8 (PDF, 620.1 kb)
Chapter 9 - Ajami literature and the study of the Sokoto Caliphate, Hamid Boboyyi
Chapter 9 (PDF, 441.5 kb)
Chapter 10 - The book in the Sokoto Caliphate, Murray Last
Chapter 10 (PDF, 489.2 kb)
Chapter 11 - Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Morocco to Nigeria, Beverly B Mack
Chapter 11 (PDF, 463.7 kb)
Chapter 12 - The Tombouctou Manuscript Project: social history approaches, Aslam Farouk-Alli and Shaheed Mathee
Chapter 12 (PDF, 504.2 kb)
Chapter 13 - The life of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, Yahya Ould el-Bara
Chapter 13 (PDF, 787.2 kb)
Chapter 14 - The works of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, Mahamane Mahamoudou
Chapter 14 (PDF, 452.7 kb)
Chapter 15 - A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sîdi Muhammad al-Kunti, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh
Chapter 15 (PDF, 557 kb)
Chapter 16 - Abul Khayr al-Arawani, great scholar and pious saint, Mohamed Diagayeté
Chapter 16 (PDF, 590.7 kb)
Chapter 17 - The state of manuscripts in Mali and efforts to preserve them, Abdelkader Mamma Haidara
Chapter 17 (PDF, 616.2 kb)
Chapter 18 - The private libraries of Timbuktu, Ismaël Diadié Haidara & Haoua Taore
Chapter 18 (PDF, 359.3 kb)
Chapter 19 - Shaykh Baghayogho al-Wangari and the Wangari Library in Timbuktu, Mukhtar bin Yahya al-Wangari
Chapter 19 (PDF, 416.6 kb)
Chapter 20 - The Ahmed Baba Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies and Research, Sidi Mohammed Ould Youbba
Chapter 20 (PDF, 699.5 kb)
Chapter 21 - The Arabic Literature of Africa Project, John Hunwick
Chapter 21 (PDF, 1.1 Mb)
Chapter 22 - The West African Arabic manuscript database, Charles C Stewart
Chapter 22 (PDF, 394.8 kb)
Chapter 23 - Arabic literature in the eastern half of Africa, Sean O’Fahey
Chapter 23 (PDF, 642.5 kb)
Chapter 24 - Textual sources on an Islamic African past: Arabic material in Zanzibar’s National Archive, Anne K Bang
Chapter 24 (PDF, 454.3 kb)
Picture Credits
Picture Credits (PDF, 355.4 kb)
