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Few published studies have thoroughly treated the history of European planning practices in the overseas colonial territories. This is especially true regarding the African continent in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Interest in the indigenous response to the formal organisation of the colonial settlement has only been manifest in the last few decades. In addition, French and British colonial policies and practices in West Africa, particularly with regard to town planning, have...

Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines...

Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this 2004 book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims in the Muslim state of Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria. He portrays the ways in which Islam was practiced in the 'pagan' societies...

Contents: Preface; Part I Shi’a: ‘Abd Allah b. Abbas and Shi’ite law; Shi’ism in the age of the rightly-guided caliphs. Part II Zaydiyya: Zu einigen Werken des Imams Abu Talib an-Natiq bi l-Haqq; Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Mu’tazilism; Al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Christian theology; Zaydi attitudes to Sufism. Part III Isma’iliyya: Das Imamat in der frühen ismailitischen Lehre; Abu Ya’qub al-Sijistani and metempsychosis; Abu Ya’qub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the intellect; The Fatimids...

Contents: Preface; Part I Mu’tazilism: The theology of al-Zamakhshari; The late Mu’tazila and determinism: the philosophers’ trap; Abu l-Husayn al-Basri’s proof for the existence of God; Ibn al-Malahimi’s refutation of the philosophers. Part II Ibadiyya: ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibaḍ and the origins of the Ibaḍiyya; ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibaḍ’s 'second letter to ʿAbd al-Malik'. Part III Hanafism and Maturidism: Abu l-Muʿin al-Nasafī and Ashʿari theology; The westward migration of Hanafi scholars from Central Asia...

This collection of essays, presented to Professor Godwin to mark his retirement in 1968, is a set of case-studies of the history of British vegetation during the last million years or so, a time of rapid climatic changes associated with the Ice Ages. The topics discussed include the study of plant remains, both pollen and larger fossils such as leaves and seeds, land and sea-level changes, the relation of archaeology to vegetation history and the evidence for vegetation change. The book sets out...

African Literature in French: A History of Creative Writing in French from West and Equatorial Africa by Dorothy S. Blair (Author) Format: Paperback (372 pages) Edition: New Ed ISBN 10: 0521284031 ISBN 13: 9780521284035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Published: 02 Jul 1981 5 in stock Item Condition: Brand New Price: £27.17 Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk

Details Nine papers including Werner's review of Sutton Hoo III, royal graves, early units of government in the West Midlands, Aelfric and the perception of script and picture, idolators and ecclesiasts. Table of Contents Foreword (William Filmer-Sankey) A Review of The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Volume 3: Some remarks, thoughts and proposals (Joachim Werner, Hon. FSA) Royal Graves as Religious Symbols (Hilda Ellis Davidson) The Badley (Needham Market) Bowl (R. H. White) Dommoc and Dunwich: A Reappraisal...

A collection of 18 essays that covers a wide range of material and re-evaluates women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, family law, morality and violence.

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In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's...

In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives.

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Institutions and Historiography: Evidence for the early use of the title ilkhan among the Mongols; Turco-Mongolian nomads and the iqta` system in the Islamic Middle East (ca.1000–1400 AD); New material from the Mamluk sources for the biography of Rashid al-Din; Al-Nuwayri as a historian of the Mongols. Part 2 The Conversion of the Mongols to Islam: The conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam; Ghazan, Islam and Mongol tradition: a view from the Mamluk Sultanate; Sufis and shamans...

Presents the views, concerns, and challenges of those who run West Africa's museums and encourages more innovative, critical, and African approaches to the presentation of a rich and multifaceted heritage.

Anwar Alam is Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has served as lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, JNU, New Delhi. He has been awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship, International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, USA, Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship and Alexander...

This book analyses the contemporary food crisis in Africa from an historical perspective, using two West African case studies. From the perspective of food production and entitlement, the volume traces the economic history of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, beginning with the slave trade, through the colonial and post-colonial periods to democratisation and structural adjustment. Using the theory and methodology of political economy, the study argues that the way in which African societies have been...

Contributing Authors Stephanie Newell Series New African SeriesNew African Dewey Decimal Classification 966 Book Format Paperback Number of Pages 248 Dimensions 152 x 229 mm Cast & Crew Ohio Univ Pr (Publisher) ISBN-10 ISBN-13

The studies in this collection comprise a series of explorations into the revolutionary character of the Almohad movement in medieval North Africa and Spain and how it was expressed, including through compelling visual and auditory means. Almohad silver coins were minted square instead of round, and they carried no date, as if to indicate that a new era had begun. The new age was symbolized in the texts appearing on the coins, reminding Muslims that God is our Lord, Muhammad is our Prophet, the Mahdi...

Presumably from one of Bray's 'Pallas' voyages of 1775-76. Bray clearly had an artistic interest in elaborate hairstyles, both European and African, of which this is a good example. PAJ2033 is fairly evidently a pair to it, possibly showing the same woman, but certainly the same hairstyle with a hat worn over it. With PAJ2011 and PAJ2039 they are two of four single monochrome studies of African heads by Bray in the related group, which also includes three more stylized pairs on single sheets in greater...

In recent years black South African music and dance have become ever more popular in the West, where they are now widely celebrated as expressions of opposition to discrimination and repression. Less well known is the rich history of these arts, which were shaped by several generations of black artists and performers whose struggles, visions, and aspirations did not differ fundamentally from those of their present-day counterparts. In five detailed case studies Veit Erlmann digs deep to expose the...

These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with...

"Saha's book is an excellent source guide to the diverse literature on African agriculture, with particular emphasis on West Africa. Saha aims to assist a scholarly community interested in the teaching and research, offering them a richly annotated, well researched and well documented history of West African agriculture. . . . Saha's scholarly work is commendable, calling for a similar study to address East African agriculture. As a source book, the study is excellent . . . . useful for faculty and...

Covers some fifty years of Pines' work in the field of Islamic philosophy, from the first article he published in 1937 to an article that was found in his paper after his death.

Contents: Introduction; The political history of the Islamic Yemen down to the first Turkish invasion (1–945/622–1538); Yemenite history: problems and misconceptions; Ibn al-Mujawir on Dhofar and Socotra; Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century Arabia: the wondrous and the humorous; Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century guide to Arabia: the eastern connection; Some ‘anthropological’ passages from Ibn al-Mujawir’s guide to Arabia and their proposed interpretations; The language of Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th...

In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with Muslim societies and with Europe. Cloth in West African...

In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier...

This is the third edition of the book which was first published in 1899. The book is about the history of West Africa regarding medicine, trade, religion and imperialism. There are 27 illustrations throughout the book and a map of West Africa at the end of the book. The book is in a good condition. The jacket is bumped to the edges and there is a split on the jacket which has effected the cover. There is also some foxing to the jacket.

Understanding natural resources management requires an interdisciplinary approach. Through a number of case studies from the West African Sahel, this book links and explores natural resources management from the perspectives of three distinct but interrelated spheres (politics, property and production) and within a broad and empirically based political ecology. Natural resources management is first of all profoundly political. Seen from above, it is constantly the object of planning efforts where...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our...

Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali. The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since...

List of AcronymsSummaryChapter 1. Overview of Select OECD Country Migration PoliciesChapter 2. Towards a Common EU Immigration and Asylum Policy: What are the Stakes for West Africa?Chapter 3. The African Approach on MigrationChapter 4. ConclusionsAnnex I. Graphs Showing Migration FlowsAnnex II. Chronology of Events related to Incidents in Cueta and MelillaBibliography

Islamic cultures in the Middle East have inherited and developed a legacy of urbanism spanning millennia to the ancient civilizations of the region. In contrast to well-organized states like China in history, Muslim peoples formed loose states based on intricate social networks. As a consequence, most studies of urban history in the Middle East have focused their gaze exclusively on urban social organization, often neglecting the extension of political power to rural areas. Covering Morocco, Egypt...

These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with...

Most critics have not recognized the need for a comprehensive analysis of tragedy in the West African novel. Is there a place for tragedy in the novel? What is tragedy for the Anglophone West African novelist? What is the future of the tragic novel in West Africa? These are some of the fundamental questions, which this study sets out to answer. In this seminal study, and using works of writers such as Achebe, Armah, Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ifeoma Okoye, Lekan Oyegoke, Asare Konadu, John Munonye and...