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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
Author: Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
Author: Nehemia LevtzionPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521224222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Medieval West Africa
Author: Nehemia LevtzionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in ""Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History"". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
Medieval West Africa Before 1400
Author: Nehemia LevtzionPublisher: Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN: 9781558761650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travelers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
African Dominion
Author: Michael A. GomezPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. Scholars have long held that such distinctions arose during the colonial period, but Gomez shows they developed much earlier. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants, scholars, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire. A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste—long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Telling a radically new story about early Africa in global history, African Dominion is set to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.
Empires of Medieval West Africa
Author: David C. ConradPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604131640
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
The Golden Rhinoceros
Author: François-Xavier FauvellePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist, the author reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. He looks at ruined cities found in the mangrove, exquisite pieces of art, rare artifacts like the golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe, ancient maps, and accounts left by geographers and travelers
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources
Author: Alice BellagambaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110732808X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.
Arabic External Sources for the History of Africa to the South of Sahara
Author: Tadeusz LewickiPublisher: London : Curzon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description