https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-Revisionist-History-of-West-Africa https://booksandideas.net/A-Revisionist-History-of-West-Africa 2015-11-09T08:00:00Z text/html en Alden Young Islam History revisionism body slavery Koran <p>Describing how the <i>Qur'anic</i> school creates <i>taalibes</i> through the embodiment of knowledge, Ware offers a sharply revisionist history not only of West African Islamic education, but of the place of West Africans in the history of the Muslim world in general.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Italy-The-Temptation-of https://booksandideas.net/Italy-The-Temptation-of 2012-06-02T08:22:43Z text/html en Fabrice Jesné & Simon Sarlin Politics conservatism Italy revisionism nation historiography Florence Gould Foundation <p>As Italy celebrated the 150<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> anniversary of its unification, revisionist historians radically challenged the standard history of unification and its consequences. This offensive, backed by certain politicians, spared none of the important moments of Italian history. Might this be the sign of a more far-reaching crisis in the national narrative?</p>