Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The legacy of prehistory: an essay on the background to the individuality of African cultures
- 2 North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization, c. 800 to 323 BC
- 3 North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305
- 4 The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600
- 5 Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa
- 6 The emergence of Bantu Africa
- 7 The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa, c.ad 200 to 700
- 8 The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa
- 9 Christian Nubia
- 10 The Fatimid revolution (861–973) and its aftermath in North Africa
- 11 The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids
- Bibliographical essays
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Sections
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The legacy of prehistory: an essay on the background to the individuality of African cultures
- 2 North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization, c. 800 to 323 BC
- 3 North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305
- 4 The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600
- 5 Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa
- 6 The emergence of Bantu Africa
- 7 The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa, c.ad 200 to 700
- 8 The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa
- 9 Christian Nubia
- 10 The Fatimid revolution (861–973) and its aftermath in North Africa
- 11 The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids
- Bibliographical essays
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Sections
- Plate Sections
- Plate Sections
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- The Cambridge History of Africa , pp. 771 - 842Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979