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| Title: | Islam in West Africa, A.D. 1000-1800 |
| Author: | Hunwick, J.O. |
| Book title: | A thousand years of West African history: a handbook for teachers and students |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Pages: | 113-131 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | West Africa |
| Subject: | Islamic history |
| Abstract: | Considers Islam only in the states of the Sudan belt, the savannah country immediately to the south of the Sahara desert. Discusses the origins of Islam, the Islamisation of North Africa and the Western Sahara, and Islam in Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Hausaland, and Kanem-Bornu. Notes. |