The Mahdi and the Autodidact

The spread of Islam to the “farthest west” (Maghrib and Andalusia) was marked by the articulation of the faith into a non-Arabic milieu that was far removed from the intellectual centers of Baghdad and Mecca. As a civilizational force, the introduction of Islam to the “wild west” depended on charism...

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies

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