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Document Details : Title: The Islamic Literatures of Africa Author(s): KNAPPERT, J. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 28 Date: 1997 Pages: 193-222 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.28.0.583556 Abstract : The history of Islam in Africa begins when the Arabs took Egypt from the Byzantines in 641 AD. The Arabs went on conquering and by 647 the Greek city of Tripolis paid them tribute. Tunisia was definitively in Arab hands after 689, when they retook it from the Berbers. In Algeria, Berber independence was destroyed in 693, although rebellion flared up again later. In Morocco, Fes, the first Muslim town of any significance, was founded in 789 by Idris ibn Abdallah. Islam became dominant when the Almohad rulers settled Arab tribes there in the 12th century. Islam was not yet dominant in the eleventh century in the kingdom of Ghana in what is now southern Mauretania. |
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