Description |
x, 591 p. ; 27 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience among Muslims of Africa / Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels -- Egypt and North Africa / Peter von Sivers -- Indian Ocean and the Red Sea / M. N. Pearson -- Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 / Nehemia Levtzion -- Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest / Ivor Wilks -- Precolonial Islam in the eastern Sudan / Jay Spaulding -- Revolutions in the western Sudan / David Robinson -- Eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present / John O. Voll -- Islam in Africa under French colonial rule / Jean-Louis Triaud -- Islam in West Africa : radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990 / Lansine Kaba -- Religious pluralisms in northern Nigeria / William F. S. Miles -- Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / Lidwien Kapteijns -- East African coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. / Randall L. Pouwels -- Coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa / David C. Sperling, Jose H. Kagabo -- East Central Africa / Edward A. Alpers -- Islam in southern Africa, 1652-1998 / Robert C.-H. Shell -- Radicalism and reform in East Africa / Abdin Chande -- Islamic law in Africa / Allan Christelow -- Muslim women in African history / Roberta Ann Dunbar -- Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa / Stefan Reichmuth -- Sufi brotherhoods in Africa / Knut S. Vikor -- Prayer, amulets, and healing / David Owusu-Ansah -- Islamic art and material culture in Africa / Rene A. Bravmann -- Islamic literature in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Music and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa / Eric Charry. |
Subject |
Islam -- Africa -- History.
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Added Author |
Levtzion, Nehemia.
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Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
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ISBN |
0821412973 (paper : alk. paper) |
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0821412965 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0852557825 (James Currey : cloth) |
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0852557817 (James Currey : pbk.) |
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086486454X (David Philip : pbk.) |
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