"The text of this volume was first published as volume 20/1 of Asian and African studies by the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Haifa"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rural and urban Islam in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- Merchants vs. scholars and clerics in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- The economics of Islam in the southern Sahara / E. Ann McDougall -- The shaykh's men / Lucie G. Colvin -- Tcherno Aliou, the walí of Goumba / Lamin Sanneh -- Dyula and Sonongui roles in the Islamization of the region of Kong / Kathryn L. Green -- Amadiyya and urbanization / May Yacoob -- Court and periphery in Ethiopian Christianity / Steven Kaplan -- Liminality, hijra, and the city / Humphrey J. Fisher.
