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Title: The Meanings of Timbuktu
Contributors: Jeppie, Shamil
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
Keywords: Timbuktu
Africa
West Africa
Arabic calligraphy
Walata
Ajami literature
Higher education
Sokoto Caliphate
Muslim women scholars
Mali
Arabic Literature
Private libraries
Ahmed Baba Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies and Research
Wangari Library
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: CODESRIA/HSRC
Place of Publication: Dakar, Senegal; Cape Town, South Africa
Series/Report no.: CODESRIA Publications in Full Text
Description: Contradicting the popular notion that African history survived only through the oral tradition, this collection of essays examines the rich legacy of written history on the continent, specifically in Timbuktu. It brings together articles written by a number of leading international scholars from Europe, the United States, and several African countries, covering a wide range of areas in the study of Timbuktu, from archaeology and literature to the intellectual life, libraries, and private collections in Timbuktu and West Africa.
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01bc386n02r
ISSN: 978-07969-2204-5
Related resource: http://www.codesria.org
Appears in Collections:Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA

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The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Prelims.pdf899.41 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_1_-_Re_discovering_Timbuktu.pdf540.11 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_2_-_Toward_an_intellectual_history_of_West_Africa__the_meaning_of_Timbuktu.pdf507.91 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_3_-_Before_Timbuktu__cities_of_the_elder_world.pdf685.12 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_4_-_Paper_in_Soudanic_Africa.pdf455.8 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_5_-_Arabic_calligraphy_in_West_Africa.pdf689.87 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_6_-_Timbuktu_and_Walata__lineages_and_higher_education.pdf531.81 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_7_-_Intellectual_innovation_and_reinvention_of_the_Sahel__the_seventeenth-century_Timbuktu_chronicles.pdf1.05 MBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_8_-_Ajami_in_Africa__the_use_of_Arabic_script_in_the_transcription_of_African_languages.pdf620.14 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_9_-_Ajami_literature_and_the_study_of_the_Sokoto_Caliphate.pdf441.58 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_10_-_The_book_in_the_Sokoto_Caliphate.pdf489.2 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_11_-_Muslim_women_scholars_in_the_nineteenth_and_twentieth_centuries__Morocco_to_Nigeria.pdf463.78 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_12_-_The_Tombouctou_Manuscript_Project__social_history_approaches.pdf504.26 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_13_-_The_life_of_Shaykh_Sidi_al-Mukhtar_al-Kunti.pdf787.24 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_14_-_The_works_of_Shaykh_Sidi_al-Mukhtar_al-Kunti.pdf452.74 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_15_-_A_man_of_letters_in_Timbuktu__al-Shaykh_Sidi_Muhammad_al-Kunti.pdf557.09 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_16_-_Abul_Khayr_al-Arawani__great_scholar_and_pious_saint.pdf590.71 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_17_-_The_state_of_manuscripts_in_Mali_and_efforts_to_preserve_them.pdf616.27 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_18_-_The_private_libraries_of_Timbuktu.pdf359.38 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_19_-_Shaykh_Baghayogho_al-Wangari_and_the_Wangari_Library_in_Timbuktu.pdf416.6 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_20_-_The_Ahmed_Baba_Institute_of_Advanced_Islamic_Studies_and_Research.pdf699.55 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_21_-_The_Arabic_Literature_of_Africa_Project.pdf1.18 MBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_22_-_The_West_African_Arabic_manuscript_database.pdf394.86 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_23_-_Arabic_literature_in_the_eastern_half_of_Africa.pdf642.55 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Chapter_24_-_Textual_sources_on_an_Islamic_African_past__Arabic_material_in_Zanzibar_s_National_Archive.pdf454.33 kBAdobe PDFView/Download
The_Meanings_of_Timbuktu_-_Picture_Credits.pdf355.49 kBAdobe PDFView/Download


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