Islamic Scholarship in Africa (eBook, PDF)

New Directions and Global Contexts
Redaktion: Kane, Ousmane Oumar

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Produktbeschreibung

Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.



The study of Islamic erudition in Africa is growing rapidly, transforming not just Islamic studies, but also African Studies. This interdisciplinary volume from leading international scholars fills a lacuna in presenting not onlythe history and spread of Islamic scholarship in Africa, but its current state and future concerns. Challenging the notion that Muslim societies in black Africa were essentially oral prior to the European colonial conquest at theturn of the 20th century, and countering the largely Western division of sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, the authors take an inclusive approach to advance our knowledge of the contribution of people of African descent to thelife of Mecca.
This book explores in depth the intellectual and spiritual exchanges between populations in the Maghreb, the Sahara and West Africa. A key theme is Islamic learning. The authors examine the madrasa as asite of knowledge and learning, the relationship between "diasporas" and Islamic education systems, female learning circles, and the use of ICT. Diversifying the study of Islamic erudition, the contributors look at the interactions between textuality and orality, female learning circles, the vernacular study of poetry and cosmological texts, and the role of Ajami - the use of Arabic script to transcribe 80 African languages.
> OUSMANE KANE is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. His books include Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectualhistory of Muslim West Africa (2016).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446076
• Artikelnr.: 63205294

Autorenporträt

Ousmane Oumar Kane

Inhaltsangabe

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 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