The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030457617)

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-Ḥājj Salim Suwari

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

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

Chapter 6: Between Jihād 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: Sharīʿa 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 Dagboŋ, 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

Author: Fallou Ngom
ISBN-10: 3030457613
ISBN-13: 9783030457617
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2021
Pages: 774
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.60d