انتشار الإسلام في غرب أفريقيا

في هذه الحلقة نتحدث عن بداية تجارة الرقيق في أفريقيا على يد البريطانيين وعن تأسيس الشركة الملكية الأفريقية لتجارة العبيد 

في هذه الحلقة نتحدث عن اندلاع الحروب الأهلية في إنجلترا وعن إعدام ملك إنجلترا تشارلز الأول 

Islam expanded first into Africa before anywhere else. In this episode we trace the history of Islam in Africa. Starting with the hijra to Axum/Aksum by the early Muslim community, we trace the political conquests of the Rashidun and the Umayyad. We examine the importance of trad ...  Show more

Our latest episode tells the story of how Islam arrived in America, possibly as early as the 1400s on ships from Europe and West Africa. We have two guests on this episode. One is Sylviane Diouf, a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown Unive ...  Show more

For centuries, the Indian Ocean has been a vast crossroads of cultures, goods, and ideas - but what role did Islam play in weaving this intricate web of connections? Arab, Berber, Persian and Indian merchants spread Islam from the seventh century onwards across the vast geographi ...  Show more

The first in a series to look at the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. In this episode, we will introduce the series and take an in-depth look at the city-state of Gao and the rise and fall of the Ghana Empire. We'll also discuss one of the more complicated and difficult topic ...  Show more