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Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 October 2025
Publisher: Columbia University Press

The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. Textual Life considers Kamara’s story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change.

Weight: 446g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231210713

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