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Title:Manding Traders and Clerics: The Development of Islam in Liberia to the 1870s
Author:Corby, Richard A.
Year:1988
Periodical:Liberian Studies Journal
Volume:13
Issue:1
Pages:42-66
Language:English
Geographic term:Liberia
Subjects:Islamic history
Manding
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Religion and Witchcraft
Abstract:Trans-Saharan trade between the Maghrib and the Sudan, the savanna region of West Africa, had long predated the arrival of Islam in North Africa. After their conversion to Islam, Berber traders carried the religion along these established trade routes southward across the Sahara by the ninth or tenth century AD. West African traders and clerics were to be the principal agents of Islamization in the spread of the religion from the 'sahil', the region where the savanna and the desert merge, southward into the central and southern Sudan. This essay discusses the role of the Manding traders and clerics in the spread of Islam in Liberia in the 18th and 19th century. Notes, ref.
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