This comprehensive study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa charts the historical background and archaeological evidence attesting to the spread of Islam across the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Nigeria. Surveying a timespan from the immediate pre-Islamic period through to the present, Timothy Insoll analyzes the processes (jihad, trade, missionary activity, prestige) by which Islam spread. This book is relevant to scholars, students and all readers interested in Africa, archaeology, religion and Islam.
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"Timothy Insoll has put together a remarkable study that will take its place alongside Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwell's A History of Islam in Africa as a major work of reference on the foundations and development of Muslim societies in sub-Saharan Africa." H-Net Review
"A welcome addition to the literature on sub-Saharan archaeology." International Journal of African Historical Studies
"...we can applaud the research efforts of the author and his well-structured, accessible summary. Readers from archaeology and the historical humanities in particular will find much that is useful in the approach of this ambitious undertaking." - Journal of Field Archaeology, Adria LaViolette, University of Virginia
"A welcome addition to the literature on sub-Saharan archaeology." International Journal of African Historical Studies
"...we can applaud the research efforts of the author and his well-structured, accessible summary. Readers from archaeology and the historical humanities in particular will find much that is useful in the approach of this ambitious undertaking." - Journal of Field Archaeology, Adria LaViolette, University of Virginia
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This book is the first comprehensive 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 analyzes in detail the processes--jihad, trade, missionary activity, prestige--by which Islam spread. This book will be relevant to scholars, students and all those interested in Africa, archaeology, religion and Islam.
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This volume aims to examine the archaeology of Islam in Africa south of the Sahara. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relevant archaeological research, sgraffiato wares, jihad period, dual settlements, staircase minaret, glass trade beads, sedentary agriculturists, congregational mosque, mangrove poles, carnelian beads, mosque architecture, stone mosque, pillar tombs, more recent excavations, tower tombs, coastal hinterland Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saharan Africa, East African, Red Sea, Nilotic Sudan, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, North Africa, Ibn Battuta, Persian Gulf, Gao Ancien, Richard Pankhurst, Horn of Africa, Dahlak Kebir, Qasr Ibrim, Koumbi Saleh, Lake Chad, Mansa Musa, Tippu Tip, Sasanian Islamic, Husuni Kubwa, River Niger, South Africa, Birni Ngazargamo, Bono Manso, Askia Muhammad New!
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This volume aims to examine the archaeology of Islam in Africa south of the Sahara. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relevant archaeological research, sgraffiato wares, jihad period, dual settlements, staircase minaret, glass trade beads, sedentary agriculturists, congregational mosque, mangrove poles, carnelian beads, mosque architecture, stone mosque, pillar tombs, more recent excavations, tower tombs, coastal hinterland Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saharan Africa, East African, Red Sea, Nilotic Sudan, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, North Africa, Ibn Battuta, Persian Gulf, Gao Ancien, Richard Pankhurst, Horn of Africa, Dahlak Kebir, Qasr Ibrim, Koumbi Saleh, Lake Chad, Mansa Musa, Tippu Tip, Sasanian Islamic, Husuni Kubwa, River Niger, South Africa, Birni Ngazargamo, Bono Manso, Askia Muhammad New!
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- Great Zimbabwe (New Aspects of Archaeology) by Peter S. Garlake on 8 pages
- UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition: Methodology and African Prehistory by Joseph Ki-Zerbo on 8 pages
- General History of Africa volume 7: Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged)) (Vol 7) by A. Adu Boahen on 8 pages
- Great Zimbabwe (Digging for the Past) by Martin Hall on 7 pages
- The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns (One World Archaeology) by Bassey Andah on 4 pages
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- The Archaeology of Islam (Social Archaeology) by Timothy Insoll in Back Matter
- The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000-300 BC) (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans in Front Matter
- The Nubian Past by David N. Edwards in Back Matter
- Archaeology and World Religion by Timothy Insoll on page 147
- Archaeology and World Religion by Timothy Insoll on page 147
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