The history of Islam in Africa /

The history of Islam in Africa / [print] edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels. - Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)2000. - x, 591 pages ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience among Muslims of Africa Egypt and North Africa The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 The Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest Precolonial Islam in the eastern Sudan Revolutions in the western Sudan The eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present Islam in Africa under French colonial rule Islam in West Africa: radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990 Religious pluralisms in northern Nigeria Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa The East African coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. / Randall L. Pouwels -- The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa East Central Africa Islam in southern Africa, 1652-1998 Radicalism and reform in East Africa Islamic law in Africa Muslim women in African history Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa Sufi brotherhoods in Africa Prayer, amulets, and healing Islamic art and material culture in Africa Islamic literature in Africa Music and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels -- Peter von Sivers -- M.N. Pearson -- Nehemia Levtzion -- Ivor Wilks -- Jay Spaulding -- David Robinson -- John O. Voll -- Jean-Louis Triaud -- Lansine Kaba -- William F.S. Miles -- Lidwien Kapteijns -- David C. Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo -- Edward A. Alpers -- Robert C.-H. Shell -- Abdin Chande -- Allan Christelow -- Roberta Ann Dunbar -- Stefan Reichmuth -- Knut S. Vikr -- David Owusu-Ansah -- Rene A. Bravmann -- Kenneth W. Harrow -- Eric Charry.



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