Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 041563167X ISBN 13: 9780415631679

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. 

This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

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L'autore

E. Ann McDougall (Professor), Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada has researched social and economic history in southern Morocco and Mauritania for over thirty years. Her current project focuses on a comparative study of servile/marginal status in these regions, with attention to its importance in contemporary democratization.

Contenuti

1. Engaging with the Legacy of Nehemia Levtzion: An Introduction  E. Ann McDougall  Memoirs and Memories  2. The Legacy of Nehemia Levtzion 1935-2003  3. Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Ghana: Reminiscences  Ivor Wilks  4. Memories of Nehemia  Martin Klein  5. Remembering Nehemia: Personal Tributes  Roland Oliver, William F. S. Miles, Naomi Chazan, and E. Ann McDougall  6. In Memory of Tirtza Levtzion, 1935-2007  Engaging with a Legacy  7. Breaking New Ground in "Pagan" and "Muslim" West Africa  David Robinson  8. Neo-Sufism: Reconsidered Again  John O. Voll  9. Linking Translation Theory and African History: Domestication and Foreignization in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History  Dalton S. Collins  The Ancient Ghana and Mali Project  10. Reconceptualizing Early Ghana Susan  Keech McIntosh  11. Captain of We Band of Brothers: An Archaeologist’s Homage to Nehemia Levtzion  Roderick J. McIntosh  12. From the Banan Tree of Kouroussa: Mapping the Landscape in Mande Traditional History  David C. Conrad  Developing "Themes": History of Islam in Africa  13. Christians and Muslims in Nineteenth Century Liberia: From Ideological Antagonism to Practical Toleration  Yekutiel Gershoni  14. From the Colony to the Post-colony: Sufis and Wahhâbîsts in Senegal and Nigeria  Irit Back  15. The Philosophy of the Revolution: Thoughts on Modernizing Islamic Schools in Ghana  David Owusu-Ansah and Abdulai Iddrisu  16. A Question of Beginnings  Kenneth W. Harrow  17. "Islamic Music in Africa" as a Tool for African Studies  Michael Frishkopf  18. Hidden in the Household: Gender and Class in the Study of Islam in Africa  E. Ann McDougall  19. The Last Word from Nehemiah: Resurgent Islamic Fundamentalism as an Integrative Factor in the Politics of Africa and the Middle East  Nehemia Levtzion  20. Epilogue  John Voll

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 041563167X
• ISBN 13: 9780415631679
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Redattore: McDougall E. Ann