USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Palgrave Handbook of African Islam

The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa

 

 

Edited

 

By

Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi and Toyin Falola

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Print ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

Print ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

eText ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

eText ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

Copyright year: 2020

 

 

The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa builds on the existing knowledge on Islam in Africa, including Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels'

edited volume, The History of Islam in Africa, published in 2000. It generates new insights that enriches our understanding of the history of Islam in

Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith in the continent. The volume covers key themes that reflects the preoccupations and

realities of many African Muslims. It provides readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in sub-Saharan

Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that took place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the various forms of Jihād movements that occurred in the continent. It provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic,

political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African cultures reflected in the varied lived experiences

and the corpus of African Islamic texts.

 

 

Introduction 1

Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi and Toyin Falola

 

Part I History and Diffusion

 

2 Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800–1900 19

Bernard Salvaing

 

3 Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting

the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari 41

Alfa Mamadou Diallo Lélouma

 

4 The Islamic Intellectual Tradition of Sudanic Africa, with

Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Timbuktu Manuscript 55

Zachary V. Wright

 

5 Interpretations of Jihād in Africa: A Historical Overview 77

Fulera Issaka-Toure

 

6 Between Jihād and History: Reconceptualizing the Islamic

Revolutions of West Africa 93

Amir Syed

 

7 Islam and Emancipation: Fuladu Fulani

in the Kaabu Empire 117

Alpha Oumarou Ba

 

8 Geography, Islam, and Africa 133

Karen S. Barton

 

9 Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth 149

Bala Saho

 

10 Southern Africa's Muslim Communities:

Selected Profiles 163

Muhammed Haron

Part II Institutions and Practices

 

11 Sharīʿa Law in Muslim Africa 205

Erin E. Stiles

 

12 Female Muslim Scholars in Africa 221

Britta Frede

 

13 Islam and Christianity in Africa 233

Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova

 

14 Islam and West African Religions 253

Christopher Wise

 

15 Islamic Philosophy in Africa 267

Assan Sarr

 

Part III Islam and Creativity

 

16 Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa 281

Georg Leube

 

17 Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans

in Northern Nigeria 303

Abdalla Uba Adamu

 

18 Islam in Europhone African Literature 337

Cherif Ayouba Correa

 

19 Islam and Music in Africa 363

Brendan Kibbee

 

20 Muslims and Traditional Dance Performance in Dagboŋ,

Northern Ghana 387

Tigwe Salifu Jebuni

 

Part IV African Muslims and Knowledge Systems

 

21 Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical

Assessment of Method and Rhetoric 401

Mbaye Lo

 

22 African Islamic Influences in Selected African-American

Literary Writings 439

Babacar M'Baye

 

23 Competing and Complementary Writing Systems

in the Horn of Africa 457

Ethan M. Key

 

24 Manuscript Libraries of Sub-Saharan Muslim Africa 485

Liazzat J. K. Bonate

 

25 Exploring and Preserving the Islamic Manuscript

Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa 507

Sara Fani

 

 

Part V Islam, Modernity and the Contemporary World

 

26 Islam and Activism: The Marabout and the Trade Union 535

Omar Gueye

 

27 Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the

Relationship as Seen Through Mali and Senegal 559

Claire Seulgie Lim

 

28 Private Islamic Education in Africa 577

Gana Ndiaye

 

29 Islam and Political Renaissance in Contemporary Africa 599

Afis Ayinde Oladosu

 

30 Islam and Globalization in Africa 619

Paramole Kabir Olawale and Adeniji Atanda Stephen

 

31 Islam and the Environment in African Context 643

Muazu Usman Shehu

 

32 Researching Digital Media and Islam in Africa:

Recommending a Framework 657

Ibrahim N. Abusharif

 

33 Islam and the Future of Africa: Perceptions,

Stereotypes, and the Clash of Philosophies 679

Toyin Falola