Rudolph T Ware: 1 book
The Walking Qur'an
Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the...
