General history of Africa. III : Africa from the seventh to the eleventh century /
Muḥammad Elfasi, Ivan Hrbek, Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
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- London : Heinemann Educational Books ; 1988
- xxv, 869 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes note on chronology, list of figures, list of plates, acknowledgements for plates, preface, biographies of authors, bibliography and index
Description of the project; note on chronology; members of the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa; biographies of the authors; Africa in the context of world histories; the coming of Islam and the expansion of the Muslim empire; stages in the development of Islam and its dissemination in Africa; Islam as a social system in Africa since the 7th century; the peoples of the Sudan - population movements; the Bantu-speaking peoples and their expansion; Egypt and the Arab conquest until the end of the Fatamid state (1171); Christian Nubia in the height of its civilization; the conquest of North Africa and Berbe resistance; the independence of Maghrib; the role of the Sahara and Saharians in the relationships between North and South; the emergence of the Fatamids; the Almoravids; trade and trade routes in West Africa; the Chad region as a crossroads; the Guinea zone - general situation; the Guinean belt - the peoples of Upper Guinea (between Cote d'Ivoire and the Casmance); the Horn of Africa; Ethiopia's relations with the Muslim world; the East African coast and the Comoro Islands; the East African interior; Central Africa to the north of the Zambezi; Central Africa to the south of the Zambezi; Madagascar; the African diaspora in Asia; relations between the different regions of Africa; Africa from the 7th to the 11th century - five formative centuries.
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