Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139054577
Content:
The five and a half centuries described in this volume were those in which Iron Age cultures passed from their early and experimental phases into stages of maturity characterized by long-distance trade and complex, many-tiered political systems. In Egypt and North Africa it was a period of religious and cultural consolidation when the Arabic language and the faith of Islam were adopted by the majority of the indigenous Copts and Berbers. In the sub-Saharan Savanna it was a period rather of penetration when Muslim merchants and clerics built up small but significant minorities of Negro African converts. Muslim migrants conquered the Nilotic Sudan, encircled Christian Ethiopia and settled the coastline of eastern Africa. But throughout the period African states, large and small, were strong enough, relatively, to control their visitors from the outside world. The main significance of the outsiders, whether Muslim or Christian, was as literate observers of the African scene
Note:
Introduction: some interregional themes
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Egypt, Nubia and the Eastern Deserts
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Ethiopia, the Red Sea and the Horn
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The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
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The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
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The western Maghrib and Sudan
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Upper and Lower Guinea
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Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
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Southern Africa
,
The East African interior
In:
3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521209811
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521209816
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Cambridge history of Africa ; 3: From c.1050 to c.1600 Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1977 ISBN 0521209811
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521209816
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521209816
Author information:
Oliver, Roland Anthony 1923-
