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Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the Psalms and the publication of the much-acclaimed new book, "Duets on Psalms: Drawing New Meaning From Ancient Words, by Jack Riemer and Elie Spitz".
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There have been Muslims in West Africa since the XIth century, if not earlier. The region that is now Mali was the center of several famous Islamic empires, notably the Ghana Empire (VIIIth-XIthcentury) (Dieterlen & Sylla, 1992) the Songhai Empire (1464-1591) (Cissoko, 1996), and states established by a succession of jihads led by various Muslim armies.