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

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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.


  • | Author: Wendell Marsh
  • | Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • | Publication Date: Oct 14, 2025
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  • | Binding: Paperback / softback
  • | ISBN-13: 9780231210713
  • | ISBN-10: 023121071X
Author:
Wendell Marsh
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
Oct 14, 2025
Binding:
Paperback / softback
ISBN-13:
9780231210713
ISBN10:
023121071X