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Closer than Your Jugular Vein: Muslim Intellectuals in a Malian Village, 1900 to the 1960s

Description:

In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conventional approaches to West African Islam, libraries and oral sources from Ruumde...

Keyword:

Islam, Literacy, and Mali

Subject:

History

Creator:

Jeremy Brandt

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/07/2018

Date Modified:

09/07/2018

Date Created:

2008-05-09

Resource Type:

Dissertation