Among the great facts in the history of West Africa prior to the age of European penetration has been the propagation of Islam and the way it has changed African societies. This book is not an attempt to write a history of West Africa, but to show the way in which Islam spread and moulded the history of the western Sudan. Dr Trimingham's conclusion is that a fundamental change occurred, towards the end of the eighteenth century, in Islam's relationship to the indigenous African civilizations, which transformed it into a social and political force that ushered in a new age.
- ISBN10 0198265115
- ISBN13 9780198265115
- Publish Date December 1959
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English