Islam in Africa

Editorial board: John Hunwick, Rüdiger Seesemann and Knut Vikør

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1570-3754
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€136.00$189.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
14
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004215252
Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms
Ousman Murzik Kobo, Ohio State University
In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.
€133.00$182.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
13
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004203372
Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
Cleo Cantone
This book constitutes a seminal contribution to the fields of Islamic architectural history and gender studies. It is the first major empirical study of the history and current state of mosque building in Senegal and the first study of mosque space from a gender perspective.
€133.00$182.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
12
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004184787
Localising Salafism
Terje Østebø
With a particular focus on the role of situated actors, this book sheds light on the emergence and expansion of Salafism in Bale, Ethiopia from the late 1960s, through the Marxist period (1974-1991) before discussing the rapid expansion and fragmentation of the movement in the 1990s until 2006.
€92.00$119.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
11
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004185999
The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State
Kim Searcy, Loyola University, Chicago
This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used ...
€213.00$276.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
10
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004175426
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills
Roman Loimeier, University of Göttingen
The present volume examines the development of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial and colonial Zanzibar, focussing on patterns of cooperation between religious scholars and the British colonial state and highlights the effects of the Zanzibar revolution of 1964 on the development of ...
€90.00$117.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
9
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004167292
Renewers of the Age
Scott Reese
Drawing on locally compiled Arabic language sources, this book offers a comprehensive examination of the role of Muslim scholars as popular intellectuals and reformers in southern Somalia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
€100.00$130.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
8
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004160996
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
By Mohammed Maarouf
This book is much more than an analysis of the schema of domination and submission as it is played out in the social drama of jinn eviction. It is also a source of information on the history and mythology of a saintly lineage, on the day to day running of a pilgrimage centre, on popular Islam, ...
€123.00$159.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
7
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004141100
Manichaean Delirium
Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim
The book uses the concept of the “Manichaean” geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces ...
€111.00$144.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
6
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004152649
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
Edited by Benjamin F. Soares
This engaging collection of essays offers new insights into the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa in the past and closer to the present.
€118.00$153.00
Series:
ISAF
Volume:
5
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004139466
Islam and Colonialism
Muhammad S. Umar
This study of Muslims’ writings on colonialism in northern Nigeria illuminates the complexities of Muslims’ reactions to British indirect rule, revealing new perspective on the subject. It is based on Arabic texts, poems, Hausa novels, and treatises on Islamic law.
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