| Description |
x, 591 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience among Muslims of Africa / Nehemia Levtzion, Randall L. Pouwels -- Egypt and North Africa / Peter von Sivers -- The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea / M.N. Pearson -- Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 / Nehemia Levtzion -- The Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest / Ivor Wilks -- Precolonial Islam in the eastern Sudan / Jay Spaulding -- Revolutions in the western Sudan / David Robinson -- The eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present / John O. Voll -- Islam in Africa under French colonial rule / Jean-Louis Triaud -- Islam in West Africa: radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990 / Lansiné Kaba -- Religious pluralisms in northern Nigeria / William F.S. Miles -- Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The East African coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. / Randall L. Pouwels -- The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa / David C. Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo -- East Central Africa / Edward A. Alpers -- Islam in southern Africa, 1652-1998 / Robert C.-H. Shell -- Radicalism and reform in East Africa / Abdin Chande -- Islamic law in Africa / Allan Christelow -- Muslim women in African history / Roberta Ann Dunbar -- Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa / Stefan Reichmuth -- Sufi brotherhoods in Africa / Knut S. Vikør -- Prayer, amulets, and healing / David Owusu-Ansah -- Islamic art and material culture in Africa / René A. Bravmann -- Islamic literature in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Music and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa / Eric Charry. |
| Subject |
Islam -- Africa -- History.
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| Added Author |
Levtzion, Nehemia.
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Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0821412965 cloth alkaline paper |
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0821412973 paper alkaline paper |
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0852557825 James Currey cloth |
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0852557817 James Currey paperback |
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086486454X David Philip paperback |
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