Part 1 In light of this extreme care to trace deep roots of the tribes to the Islamic tree of lineage, it becomes clear that many forms of such twisting, modification and addition have come upon the sources of these authentic Islamic narratives springing from the Prophetic biography, which is impermissible, since these are religious narratives. Yet, if we consider the …
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Islam and the Formation of Identities in Africa Part 1 By :- Adam Bumba
Almighty Allah – Glorified and Exalted is He – says, {O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another} (Al-Hujurat 49: 13). In light of this noble Qur’anic verse, it can be claimed that among Almighty Allah’s Bounties bestowed on Africa is the multiplicity of its …
Read More »When Timbuktu Was the Paris of Islamic Intellectuals in Africa By LILA AZAM ZANGANEH
In popular imagination, the word Timbuktu is a trip of three syllables to the ends of the earth. Today this West African city is a slumbering and decrepit citadel at the southern edge of the Sahara, in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet it is here that some of the most astonishing developments in African intellectual …
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