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Subject(s)

• Islam—Africa—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Islam—Customs and practices—Africa [Browse]
• Islam and politics—Africa [Browse]

Editor

• Østebø, Terje [Browse]

Series

Routledge International Handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa,Politics and Islamic reform, Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims, New technologies, media and popular culture .Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader socio-political developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Figures
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• Introduction
• Islam in Africa
• The Study of Islam in Africa - and the Muslim World
• African Islam?
• Overview of Chapters
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part I Formation of Islam in Africa: Islamic Scholarship, Literature, and Sufism
• 2 The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions: Local, Regional, and Global Worlds
• Setting the Stage: Locating the Traveling Scholar
• Onstage: the Traveling Scholar in Academic Literature
• Backstage: the Traveling Scholar in the African Islamic Tradition
• Coming From the Outside
• Into Africa in Modernity: Professional Travelers
• Seekers, Preachers, and Pilgrims - and the Muhajirun
• Local and Regional Travelers
• Exit Stage: the Muhajirun
• Devotional Journeys: the Hajj and Ziyara/Mawlid
• The Reformist Traveler of the Twentieth Century
• A Note On Female Scholarly Travelers
• 3 An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa: Local and Global Interactions
• "The Gates of China"
• Ajami - Expressions of the Faith in Vernacular Languages
• The Age of Steam and Print
• African Islamic Literature: an Assessment
• 4 Pathways and Formations of "African Sufism"
• Pathways to Sufism in Africa
• Sufism and Jihad
• Contexts
• Connecting Chains
• Fissionary Tendencies in Senegal
• Holy Families in the Sudan
• Transmission of Knowledge
• The European Impact
• What Is African About African Sufism?
• Part II Dynamics of Religious Infrastructure
• 5 A Historiography of Sub-Saharan African Mosques: From Colonialism to Modernity
• Geocultural Spheres
• Sub-Saharan West Africa
• Mali's Millennial Mud Mosques.
• A Style of Its Own: Senegal's Heterogeneous Mosques
• The Colonial Mosques of Saint Louis and Dakar
• Tuba: Spiritual Capital of the Murids
• East Africa and the Horn
• From Massawa to Mogadishu
• The Minaret in East and West Africa
• Cementification, Transposition, and Transformation of Modernity
• 6 Sufi Shrines as Material Space
• Defining Shines in an Islamic Context
• History and Distribution of Sufi Shrines in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Functions, Activities, and Personnel
• The Built Configuration of Sufi Shrines
• Sufi Shrine-Towns
• Note
• 7 The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education
• The Classical Tradition in Africa
• Colonial Transformations
• Modernizing Islamic Education in Postcolonial Africa
• Conclusions
• Part III Islam and African Intersections
• 8 Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa: Tracing Transformations On the Ground and in a Growing Field of Study
• Ancient Religious History, Historicist Religious Thinking
• European and African Christian Missionaries and Muslims
• Nigeria's Religious Tensions and the State in Postcolonial Africa
• Beyond the State: Religious Interaction as Practice
• 9 Islam and the Question of Gender
• Islam as Monolith Versus Islam as Dynamic Tradition
• Marginal Women, Stigmatized Practices
• Women's Authority in Sufi Communities
• Women and Islamic Reform
• Pious Masculinities and Everyday Islam
• Sexual and Gender Variance
• Part IV Islam, Politics, and Reform
• 10 Islam and Politics in Africa: Politics Within and Without the State
• Islam and Politics in African History
• Precolonial Period
• Islam Under Colonialism
• Islam and Politics in the Postcolonial Period.
• New Lines of Inquiry
• 11 Jihadism in Africa
• Key Similarities Between African Jihadist Movements
• How Should Jihadism Be Studied?
• The Terrorological Approach
• The Area Studies/localized Approach
• The Comparative Political Science Approach
• Areas in Need of Further Research
• Jihadists' Internal Organizational Structures and Modes of Operation
• Jihadists and Borderland Political Economies
• State-jihadist Relations and Conspiracy Theories as Social Facts
• Jihadists' Ideological Production Beyond Arabic
• Jihadist Religiosity
• Jihadism and Women
• 12 African Salafism
• Salafism and Current Research
• African Salafism and African Agency
• The Quest for Religious Purity
• Salafism and Politics
• Part V Patterns of Islamic Reform in Africa
• 13 Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
• On Definition and Terminology
• The Problem of Dichotomous Representations of Movements of Reform
• Doctrinal Distinction, Symbolic Distantiation, Social Separation, and Spatial Segregation
• Temporal and Structural Disjunctures
• 14 Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Africa
• The Tijaniyya in the Context of the Tariqat Muhammadiyya of the Eighteenth Century
• Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse and the Fayda Tijaniyya
• Spiritual Authority and the Globalization of the Fayda Community
• The Fayda Community's Search for Gender Parity
• The Reproduction of Indigenous Political Structures in Fayda Communities
• A Sufi Aesthetic Turn?
• Aesthetic Productions and Consumption as Spiritual Gifts (Hadaaya)
• Iconoclastic Visual Images
• Social Media
• Sufi-Salafi Coexistence
• References.
• 15 Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects
• The Study of Islamic Reform
• Tajdid in the Discourse of Islam
• Reform in Colonial Contexts
• Reform in Post-Colonial Times
• Part VI Everyday Muslim Life: Practice of Piety and New Muslim Subjects
• 16 People's Quest for Well-Being: Tracing Islamic Healing Practices in Africa
• Prologue: Malam Hussein
• Framing Islamic Healing Practices in Africa
• "African Islam"
• Symbols and People's Beliefs
• People's Quest for Well-Being
• Well-being and Health
• Lafiya
• (Il)Legitimate Practices? Debating Islamic Healing Practices in a Zongo
• Struggles for Hegemony: Islamic Groups and Healing Practices
• Debating Islamic Healing Practices: Central Issues
• 17 Islam, Muslim Life-Worlds, and Matters of the Everyday
• Muslim Societies: Religion and the World
• Worldly Islam - Living Islam
• The Social and Conceptual Presence of Jinn
• Compliance and Contestation of Oral and Performative Communication
• 18 Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam
• Islam and Education
• Muslim Youth and Islamic Reform
• Youth Activism in Sufi, Charismatic, and Shi'i Movements
• Jihadism: a Youth Revolt?
• Marriage, Family, and Sexualities
• Muslim Youth Social and Economic Initiatives
• Part VII New Technologies and New Connectiveness
• 19 Popular Culture in Muslim Africa
• Debates About Popular Culture in Muslim Africa
• In the Mix: New Technologies, New Expressions, New Resistance
• Writing the Rites to Right the Wrongs: Dissent, Islam, and Literary Discourse
• Music as Popular Culture in Muslim Africa.
• Invisible Visibilities - Visuality, Film, and Gender in Muslim Africa
• 20 Media, the Digital, and New Connections
• Conceptual and Terminological Matters
• "Islam And/as Media": an Overview
• Media Appropriations as a Continuous Process
• Media-related Dynamics in Plural Religious Settings
• Globalizing Muslim Media Engagements
• 21 Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label: The Building of African Muslim Diasporic Communities in the West
• The Make-Up of the African Muslim Diaspora
• Invisibility and Remnants of "Islam Noir"
• African Muslim Voices in Global Islam
• Place Making and the Building of Satellite Communities
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-000-47169-1
• 0-367-14424-7

OCLC

1283847730

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