September 2024, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Preface: Mahmud Erol Kılıç; Prepared for publication: Hamadou Adama, Gassim Ibrahim, Ahmad Mukhtar Adam; Studies and sources on the history of Islamic civilization, no. 63
Istanbul, 2026; in French, 557 p.
ISBN 978-92-9063-484-3 (e-book)
IRCICA has the pleasure to announce the e-book resulting from the International Conference on the ”History of Islamic Learning and Scholarship in Central and West Africa” which was organized by the Government of Cameroon through the Ministry of External Relations and the Ministry of Arts and Culture, jointly with the OIC General Secretariat and IRCICA, in Yaoundé, Republic of Cameroon, in September 2024. The conference was held under the high patronage of the President of the Republic of Cameroon H.E. Paul Biya; it brought together scholars and experts from different countries who shared and discussed research findings around the following themes: Intellectual tradition and Islamic scholarship in Central and West Africa; Prominent Islamic learning centers in Central and West Africa; Muslim scholars and their contributions to training and development; Islamic economy and merchant networks; Scholarship and Islamic intellectual networking; Islamic scholarship, media and diffusion of Islamic culture. The conference’s outcome has been prepared for publication under the supervision of the distinguished scholar Prof. Hamadou Adama. It carries forward the authentic purview of IRCICA’s series of “Studies and sources on the history of Islamic civilization”. This series has on its record more than sixty volumes of conference papers dedicated to the history and heritage of Islamic sciences, education, and scholarship in different regions of the Muslim world over four continents, including Central, West, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
