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

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