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Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275551
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa written by Michelle Apotsos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396878
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the western Sahel, a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the diverse cultural achievements and traditions of the region, spanning more than 1,300 years from the pre Islamic period through the nineteenth century. It features some of the earliest extant art from sub Saharan Africa as well as such iconic works as sculptures by the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali. Essays by leading international scholars discuss the art, architecture, archaeology, literature, philosophy, religion, and history of the Sahel, exploring the unique cultural landscape in which these ancient communities flourished. Richly illustrated and brilliantly argued, Sahel brings to life the enduring forms of expression created by the peoples who lived in this diverse crossroads of the world.

Author : Mbaye Lo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469674688
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Cannot Write My Life written by Mbaye Lo and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar ibn Said (1770–1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. In 1831 Omar composed a brief autobiography, the only known narrative written in Arabic by an enslaved person in North America, and he became famous for his Arabic writings. His enslavers also provided him with an Arabic Bible and claimed Omar as a convert to Christianity, prompting wonder and speculation among amateur scholars of Islam, white slave owners, and missionaries. But these self-proclaimed experts were unable or unwilling to understand Omar's writings, and his voice was suppressed for two centuries. Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst here weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's eighteen surviving writings, for the first time identifying his quotations from Islamic theological texts, correcting many distortions, and providing the fullest possible account of his life and significance. Placing Omar at the center of a broader network of the era's literary and religious thought, Lo and Ernst restore Omar's voice, his sophisticated engagement with Islamic and Christian theologies, his Arabic skills, and his extraordinary efforts to express himself and exert agency despite his enslavement.

Author : Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353777
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islamic Manuscript Tradition written by Christiane J. Gruber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and varied traditions of Islamic book art

Author : Moira F. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Cloth of Cameroon written by Moira F. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moira Flanagan Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Cloth of Cameroon written by Moira Flanagan Harris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063304
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture in Africa written by Raoul Granqvist and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".

Author : James Morris
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568984138
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butabu written by James Morris and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.

Author : Stéphane Pradines
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004472614
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Stéphane Pradines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries.