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Title: | Southern Saharan Scholarship and the Bilad al-Sudan |
Author: | Stewart, Charles C. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 73-93 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | Islamic history History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/180940 |
Abstract: | Subject of this article is the influence which the southern Saharan belt had upon the intellectual life of the bilad al-sudan. It argues that the economic and scholarly activities of southern Saharan lineages offer an explanation of the nature and expansion of Islam in pre-nineteenth-century West Africa. The data care drawn largely from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. In conclusion some thoughts are put forward on the relevance of these data to current assumptions on the nature and spread of 'militant' and 'quietist' Islam in West Africa prior to the mid-nineteenth century. Map, notes, table. |