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Timothy Insoll, Norman Yoffee, Susan Alcock - The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Av Timothy Insoll, Norman Yoffee, Susan Alcock

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This is the first general study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Timothy Insoll charts the historical background as well as the archaeological evidence attesting to the spread of Islam across the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Nigeria, surveying a time-span from the immediate pre-Islamic period through to the present. He also analyses in detail the syncretism which has occurred between Islam and African traditional religions, and looks at the processes - jihad, trade, missionary activity, prestige - by which Islam spread. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students, as well as to all those interested in Africa, archaeology, religion and Islam.
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Timothy Insoll is Lecturer in Archaeology at the School of Art History and Archaeology of the University of Manchester.

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'… an enormously useful book … regional differences in approach and data availability are clear … One of the books strengths is that Insoll provides much background information for the advent of Islam in Africa and for the context of Muslim societies there … Insoll's thematic and continental synthesis is a stimulating pleasure to read and will long remain a valuable work of reference.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal

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