Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Geographical and Anthropological Setting
1. Is there an African Islam?
2. The bilād al-maghrib: Rebels, saints and heretics
3. The Sahara as connective space
4. Dynamics of Islamization in the bilād al-sÙdān
5. The dynamics of jihād in the bilÁd al-sÙdÁn
6. Islam in Nubia and Funj
7. Egyptian colonialism and the Mahd in the Sudan
8. Ethiopia and Islam
9. Muslims on the Horn of Africa
10. The East African Coast
11. Muslims in Cape Town: Community and Dispute
12. Muslims under Colonial Rule
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary of Arabic terms
Notes
Index

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About the Author

Roman Loimeier is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He is author of Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in Twentieth Century Zanzibar and Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria.

Reviews

"A masterly synthesis of scholarship on Islam and Muslim societies in Africa by one of the leading scholars in the field." Robert Launay, Northwestern University "A balanced approach to Muslim societies in Africa." John H. Hanson, Indiana University Bloomington