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Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali

Author : P. F. de Moraes Farias

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 614 pages

File Size : 33,13 MB

Release : 2004-02-05

Category : History

ISBN : 0197262228

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This analytical edition makes available a unique corpus of primary-source material and demonstrates its wide implications for African and Arabic studies.Through Arabic transciptions, English translations, line-drawing reconstructions, and plate illustrations, the volume catalogues the large number of eleventh-fifteenth century Arabic-Islamic inscriptions from the Republic of Mali - including the earliest datable writing from West Africa. Dr Moraes Farias uses this rich resource to reinterpret West African chronicles and oral traditions, and to demonstrate that the Tuareg and Songhay, peoples divided by civil war in the 1990s, share a composite history. This volume also discusses a wide range of linguistic and literary issues, and contributes to current debates about the nature of epigraphic evidence.



Empires of Medieval West Africa

Author : David C. Conrad

Publisher : Infobase Publishing

Page : 153 pages

File Size : 42,23 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Africa

ISBN : 1604131640

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Explores empires of medieval west Africa.



Historical Dictionary of Mali

Author : Pascal James Imperato

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 555 pages

File Size : 36,97 MB

Release : 2008-04-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0810864029

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Mali is currently the seventh largest country in Africa. It shares borders with Mauritania and Senegal in the west, Algeria in the north, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the south, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the east. After decades of dictatorship, in 1992, a new democratic constitution was adopted and today Mali is one of the most politically and socially stable countries in Africa. While Mali still has a long way to go with their economy_they are considered to be among the 10 poorest countries in the world_they continue to make progress and their increase in cereal and gold production are steps in the right direction. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mali, through its chronology, bibliography, introductory essay, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, provides an important reference on this African country.



The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD

Author : Timothy Insoll

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 512 pages

File Size : 34,63 MB

Release : 2018-10-16

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9004383662

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In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, decoration, iconography, inscription content, archaeological context, history of research, and contemporary significance and conservation issues.



Essouk - Tadmekka

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 446 pages

File Size : 14,72 MB

Release : 2017-11-20

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9004348999

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Essouk-Tadmekka presents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ivory to the Mediterranean world. Excavation of Essouk-Tadmekka’s ruins – in Saharan West Africa – has enabled Sam Nixon and a team of scholars to better understand this town described by early Arabic geographers, therein providing insights into such wider questions as the origins of trans-Saharan trade, the commerce in gold, and the arrival of Islamic culture in West Africa. This window into the earliest period of trans-Saharan exchange includes illustration of some of the best-preserved ruins along the camel-caravan routes, the earliest-known Arabic writing in West Africa, and rare gold-working remains. Contributors are: Stephanie Black, Sophie Desrosiers, Laure Dussubieux, Thomas Fenn, Dorian Fuller, James Lankton, Kevin MacDonald, Paulo de Moraes Farias, Mary-Anne Murray, Sam Nixon, Thilo Rehren, Peter Robertshaw, Jane Sidell, and Benoit Suzanne.



Culture and Customs of Mali

Author : Dorothea E. Schulz Ph.D.

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 18,16 MB

Release : 2012-01-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Touching on everything from its rich musical heritage to its varied cultural traditions, this is a thorough and accessible introduction to the contemporary lives of the different peoples who call Mali their home. Rated among the world's ten poorest nations, Mali has a glorious past and a less-certain present. Culture and Customs of Mali touches on the first as background for understanding the second, exploring multiple facets of contemporary social life and cultural practices in this landlocked, West African nation. The book offers an overview of diverse aspects of everyday social, cultural, and religious life in Mali, paying particular attention to regional and ethnic variations. It shows how current social conventions and cultural values are the product of a centuries-long history, while at the same time dispels the common perception that African societies are rooted in unchanging tradition. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the multiple ways in which Malians, starting from their own customs and cultural foundations, integrate themselves into an international economic order and a globalized world of shared media images and cultural practices.



Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Stéphane Pradines

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 16,79 MB

Release : 2022-11-07

Category : History

ISBN : 9004472614

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This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries.



A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960

Author : Bruce S. Hall

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 12,13 MB

Release : 2011-06-06

Category : History

ISBN : 1139499084

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The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since.



Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 537 pages

File Size : 40,69 MB

Release : 2018-08-13

Category : History

ISBN : 9004380183

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Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book’s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.



Writing the Early Medieval West

Author : Elina Screen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 47,23 MB

Release : 2018-05-03

Category : History

ISBN : 110818751X

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Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting the field on a new footing. Concentrating on the role of writing in mediating early medieval knowledge of the past, on the importance of surviving manuscripts as clues to the circulation of ideas and political and cultural creativity, and on the role that texts of different kinds played both in supporting and in subverting established power relations, these essays represent a milestone in studies of the early medieval written word.