The Palgrave handbook of Islam in Africa / Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi, Toyin Falola, editors.

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They prov...

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Other Authors: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Falola, Toyin, Ngom, Fallou
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Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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505 0 |a Intro -- Preface -- Note on Sources -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: History and Diffusion -- Part II: Institutions and Practices -- Part III: Islam and Creativity -- Part IV: African Muslims and Knowledge Systems -- Part V: Islam, Modernity, and the Contemporary World -- References -- Part I History and Diffusion -- Chapter 2 Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800-1900 -- From the Seventh to the Fifteenth Century -- The Horn of Africa -- The East Coast -- Central Africa -- West Africa -- From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 
505 8 |a Northeast Africa -- The East Coast -- The Interior -- Central Africa -- Timbuktu and Islamic Education and Culture -- Other Agents of Islamization in West Africa -- The Jihāds -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari -- Introduction -- Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari: An Iconic Figure in Muslim Africa -- Religious Leadership as a Combination of Islamic Skills and Social Engineering -- Mobility and Leadership -- Conclusion -- References 
505 8 |a Chapter 4 The Islamic Intellectual Tradition of Sudanic Africa, with Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Timbuktu Manuscript -- Urban Centers in Islamic Africa -- Clerical Lineages -- Muḥammad al-Kābarī and the Bustān al-FawāʼId -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Interpretations of Jihād in Africa: A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- Precolonial Forms of Jihād: Between Lesser Jihād and Greater Jihād -- Jihāds in Africa: From the Colonial to the Postcolonial Era -- Post September 11: Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab -- Conclusion -- References 
505 8 |a Chapter 6 Between Jihād and History: Reconceptualizing the Islamic Revolutions of West Africa -- Introduction -- Reconceptualizing Jihād in the Study of Islam in Africa -- Seizing Political Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century -- Disentangling the Nineteenth Century Islamic Revolutions -- The Nineteenth Century Islamic Revolutions: Questions, Discrepancies, and Ambiguities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Islam and Emancipation: Fuladu Fulani in the Kaabu Empire -- Introduction -- The Geographical Location of Fuladu -- The Historical Context 
505 8 |a The Power of the Mandinka Kaabu Empire -- The Conditions for the Emergence of the Fuladu Kingdom -- Antecedents of the Nineteenth-Century Crisis -- Questioning the Central Authority -- The Expansion of the Fulani Muslim Theocratic Power of Fuuta Jalon -- Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Taal's Visit to Fuladu -- Islam as a Catalyst for the Emancipation of the Fuladu Fulani in the Local Epic -- The Context of Enunciation -- The Summary of the Text -- Questioning the Political and Ideological System of the Mandinka Power -- The Healing of Bulli Kitaabu and the End of the Mandinka Power 
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