Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: Patterns of Islamization and Varieties of Religious Experience among Muslims of Africa
  Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels
• Part I: Gateways to Africa
• 1. Egypt and North Africa
  Peter von Sivers
• 2. The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea
  M. N. Pearson
• Part II: West Africa and the Sudan
• 3. Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800
  Nehemia Levtzion
• 4. The Juula and the Expansion of Islam into the Forest
  Ivor Wilks
• 5. Precolonial Islam in the Eastern Sudan
  Jay Spaulding
• 6. Revolutions in the Western Sudan
  David Robinson
• 7. The Eastern Sudan, 1822 to the Present
  John O. Voll
• 8. Islam in Africa under French Colonial Rule
  Jean-Louis Triaud
• 9. Islam in West Africa: Radicalism and the New Ethic of Disagreement, 1960-1990
  Lansine Kaba
• 10. Religious Pluralisms in Northern Nigeria
  William F. S. Miles
• Part III: Eastern and Southern Africa
• 11. Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
  Lidwien Kapteijns
• 12. The East African Coast, c. 780 to 1900 c.e.
  Randall L. Pouwels
• 13. The Coastal Hinterland and Interior of East Africa
  David C. Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo
• 14. East Central Africa
  Edward A. Alpers
• 15. Islam in Southern Africa, 1652-1998
  Robert C.-H. Shell
• 16. Radicalism and Reform in East Africa
  Abdin Chande
• Part IV: General Themes
• 17. Islamic Law in Africa
  Allan Christelow
• 18. Muslim Women in African History
  Roberta Ann Dunbar
• 19. Islamic Education and Scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Stefan Reichmuth
• 20. Sufi Brotherhoods in Africa
  Knut S. Vikor
• 21. Prayer, Amulets, and Healing
  David Owusu-Ansah
• 22. Islamic Art and Material Culture in Africa
  Rene A. Bravmann
• 23. Islamic Literature in Africa
  Kenneth W. Harrow
• 24. Music and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Eric Charry
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index

Promotional Information

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.

About the Author

Nehemia Levtzion was a director with the Council for Higher Education in Israel and was a professor of history at the Hebrew University. Randall L. Pouwels is a professor of African history at the University of Central Arkansas.

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