The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa: 2 (Islam in Africa, V. 2) - Hardcover

'Generally speaking, this volume has succeeded in correcting many of the unsavoury stereotypes exposited in Western scholarship about Africa south of the Maghreb and has convincingly demonstrated that African Muslim authors are no less encyclopaedic and productive as their models from mainland Islam.' [Its] significance[...]lies not only in its analytical and methodical treatment of the subjects discussed, but also in its remarkable coverage of the East, West and North Africa.'.Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Journal of Oriental and African Studies 2008

In a series of essays this collected volume challenges much of the conventional wisdom regarding the intellectual history of Muslim Africa. Ranging from the libraries of Early Modern Mauritania and Timbuktu to mosque lectures in contemporary Mombasa the contributors to this collection overturn many commonly accepted assumptions about Africa's Muslim learned classes. Rather than isolated, backward and out of touch, the essays in this volume reveal Muslim intellectuals as not only well aware of the intellectual currents of the wider Islamic world but also caring deeply about the issues facing their communities.