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The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa
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Chapter 1: Introduction
PART I: HISTORY AND DIFFUSION
Chapter 2: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800-1900
Chapter 3: Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari
Chapter 4: The Islamic Intellectual Traditions of Sudanic Africa, with Analysis of a Fifteenth- Century Timbuktu Manuscript
Chapter 5: Interpretations of Jihād in Africa: A Historical Overview
Chapter 6: Between Jihād and History: Re-conceptualizing the Islamic Revolutions of West Africa
Chapter 7: Islam and Emancipation: The Fuladu Fulani in the Kaabu Empire
Chapter 8: Geography, Islam, and AfricaChapter 9: Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth
Chapter 10: Southern Africa's Muslim Communities: Selected Profiles
PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES
Chapter 11: Sharīʿa Law in Muslim Africa
Chapter 12: Female Muslim Scholars in Africa
Chapter 13: Christianity and Islam in Africa
Chapter 14: Islam and West African Religions
Chapter 15: Islamic Philosophy in Africa
PART III: ISLAM AND CREATIVITY
Chapter 16: Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa
Chapter 17: Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans in Northern Nigeria
Chapter 18: Islam in Europhone African Literature
Chapter 19: Islam and Music in Africa
Chapter 20: Muslims and Traditional Dance Performance in Dagboŋ, Northern Ghana
PART IV: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
Chapter 21: Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical Assessment of Method and Rhetoric
Chapter 22: African Islamic Influences in Selected African American Literary Writings
Chapter 23: Competing and Complementary Writing Systems in the Horn of Africa
Chapter 24: Manuscript Libraries of Sub-Saharan Muslim Africa
Chapter 25: Exploring and Preserving the Islamic Manuscript Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa
PART V: ISLAM, MODERNITY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Chapter 26: Islam and Activism: The Marabout and the Trade Union
Chapter 27: Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the Relationship as seen
through Mali and Senegal
Chapter 28: Private Islamic Education in Africa
Chapter 29: Islam and Political Renaissance in Contemporary Africa
Chapter 30: Islam and Globalization in Africa
Chapter 31: Islam and the Environment in African ContextChapter 32: Researching Digital Media and Islam in Africa: Recommending a Framework
Chapter 33: Islam and the Future of Africa: Perceptions, Stereotypes, and the Clash of
Philosophies
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