The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jih?d movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.

Fallou Ngom is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, USA.

Mustapha H. Kurfi is Senior Lecturer at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria.

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Auteur

Fallou Ngom is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, USA.

Mustapha H. Kurfi is Senior Lecturer at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria.

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction

PART I: HISTORY AND DIFFUSION

Chapter 2: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800-1900

Chapter 3: Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting the Legacy of Al-jj Salim Suwari

Chapter 4: The Islamic Intellectual Traditions of Sudanic Africa, with Analysis of a Fifteenth- Century Timbuktu Manuscript

Chapter 5: Interpretations of Jihd in Africa: A Historical Overview

Chapter 6: Between Jihd and History: Re-conceptualizing the Islamic Revolutions of West Africa

Chapter 7: Islam and Emancipation: The Fuladu Fulani in the Kaabu Empire Chapter 8: Geography, Islam, and Africa

Chapter 9: Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth

Chapter 10: Southern Africa's Muslim Communities: Selected Profiles

PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES

Chapter 11: Shara Law in Muslim Africa

Chapter 12: Female Muslim Scholars in Africa

Chapter 13: Christianity and Islam in Africa

Chapter 14: Islam and West African Religions

Chapter 15: Islamic Philosophy in Africa

PART III: ISLAM AND CREATIVITY

Chapter 16: Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa

Chapter 17: Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans in Northern Nigeria

Chapter 18: Islam in Europhone African Literature

Chapter 19: Islam and Music in Africa

Chapter 20: Muslims and Traditional Dance Performance in Dagbo, Northern Ghana

PART IV: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Chapter 21: Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical Assessment of Method and Rhetoric

Chapter 22: African Islamic Influences in Selected African American Literary Writings

Chapter 23: Competing and Complementary Writing Systems in the Horn of Africa

Chapter 24: Manuscript Libraries of Sub-Saharan Muslim Africa

Chapter 25: Exploring and Preserving the Islamic Manuscript Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

PART V: ISLAM, MODERNITY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Chapter 26: Islam and Activism: The Marabout and the Trade Union

Chapter 27: Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the Relationship as seen

through Mali and Senegal

Chapter 28: Private Islamic Education in Africa

Chapter 29: Islam and Political Renaissance in Contemporary Africa

Chapter 30: Islam and Globalization in Africa Chapter 31: Islam and the Environment in African Context

Chapter 32: Researching Digital Media and Islam in Africa: Recommending a Framework

Chapter 33: Islam and the Future of Africa: Perceptions, Stereotypes, and the Clash of

Philosophies