The History of Islam in Africa.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Introduction: Patterns of Islamization and Varieties of Religious Experience among Muslims of Africa -- Part I: Gateways to Africa -- 1. Egypt and North Africa -- 2. The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea -- Part II: West Africa and the Sudan -- 3. Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 -- 4. The Juula and the Expansion of Islam into the Forest -- 5. Precolonial Islam in the Eastern Sudan -- 6. Revolutions in the Western Sudan -- 7. The Eastern Sudan, 1822 to the Present -- 8. Islam in Africa under French Colonial Rule -- 9. Islam in West Africa: Radicalism and the New Ethic of Disagreement, 1960-1990 -- 10. Religious Pluralisms in Northern Nigeria -- Part III: Eastern and Southern Africa -- 11. Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa -- 12. The East African Coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. -- 13. The Coastal Hinterland and Interior of East Africa -- 14. East Central Africa -- 15. Islam in Southern Africa, 1652-1998 -- 16. Radicalism and Reform in East Africa -- Part IV: General Themes -- 17. Islamic Law in Africa -- 18. Muslim Women in African History -- 19. Islamic Education and Scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 20. Sufi Brotherhoods in Africa -- 21. Prayer, Amulets, and Healing -- 22. Islamic Art and Material Culture in Africa -- 23. Islamic Literature in Africa -- 24. Music and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index.

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale.

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