UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. III, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh CenturyUniversity of California Press, 3 nov. 1992 - 398 pages Volume III of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography. Volume III documents the increasing influence of Islam and its dissemination and interaction with traditional African culture in northern and western regions. The essays place Africa in the context of world history at the opening of the seventh century and examine the impact of Islamic penetration, expansion of the Bantu-speaking peoples, and the growth of civilizations in West Africa. |
Table des matières
Africa in the context of world history | 1 |
The coming of Islam and the expansion of the Muslim | 16 |
Stages in the development of Islam and its dissemination | 31 |
Islam as a social system in Africa since the seventh century | 50 |
population movements | 63 |
The Bantuspeaking peoples and their expansion | 75 |
Egypt from the Arab conquest until the end of the Fatimid | 86 |
Christian Nubia at the height of its civilization | 103 |
the peoples between Mount Cameroon and Côte dIvoire | 240 |
The peoples of Upper Guinea between Côte dIvoire and the Casamance | 258 |
The Horn of Africa | 270 |
Ethiopias relations with the Muslim world | 279 |
The East African coast and the Comoro Islands | 285 |
The East African interior | 297 |
Central Africa to the north of the Zambezi | 307 |
Southern Africa to the south of the Zambezi | 318 |
The conquest of North Africa and Berber resistance | 118 |
The independence of the Maghrib | 130 |
The role of the Sahara and Saharians in the relationships between north and south | 146 |
The emergence of the Fatimids | 163 |
The Almoravids | 176 |
Trade and trade routes in West Africa | 190 |
The Chad region as a crossroads | 216 |
general situation | 226 |
Madagascar | 327 |
The African diaspora in Asia | 337 |
Relations between the different regions of Africa | 348 |
five formative centuries | 358 |
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