The Palgrave Handbook of African Islam

[Toyin Falola]

The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa

 

 

Edited

 

By

Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi and Toyin Falola

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Print ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

Print ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

eText ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

eText ISBN: 9783030457594, 3030457591

Copyright year: 2020

 

 

The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa builds on the existing knowledge on Islam in Africa, including Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels’

edited volume, The History of Islam in Africa, published in 2000. It generates new insights that enriches our understanding of the history of Islam in

Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith in the continent. The volume covers key themes that reflects the preoccupations and

realities of many African Muslims. It provides readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in sub-Saharan

Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that took place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the various forms of Jihād movements that occurred in the continent. It provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic,

political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African cultures reflected in the varied lived experiences

and the corpus of African Islamic texts.

 

 

Introduction 1

Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi and Toyin Falola

 

Part I History and Diffusion

 

2 Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800–1900 19

Bernard Salvaing

 

3 Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting

the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari 41

Alfa Mamadou Diallo Lélouma

 

4 The Islamic Intellectual Tradition of Sudanic Africa, with

Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Timbuktu Manuscript 55

Zachary V. Wright

 

5 Interpretations of Jihād in Africa: A Historical Overview 77

Fulera Issaka-Toure

 

6 Between Jihād and History: Reconceptualizing the Islamic

Revolutions of West Africa 93

Amir Syed

 

7 Islam and Emancipation: Fuladu Fulani

in the Kaabu Empire 117

Alpha Oumarou Ba

 

8 Geography, Islam, and Africa 133

Karen S. Barton

 

9 Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth 149

Bala Saho

 

10 Southern Africa’s Muslim Communities:

Selected Profiles 163

Muhammed Haron

Part II Institutions and Practices

 

11 Sharīʿa Law in Muslim Africa 205

Erin E. Stiles

 

12 Female Muslim Scholars in Africa 221

Britta Frede

 

13 Islam and Christianity in Africa 233

Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova

 

14 Islam and West African Religions 253

Christopher Wise

 

15 Islamic Philosophy in Africa 267

Assan Sarr

 

Part III Islam and Creativity

 

16 Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa 281

Georg Leube

 

17 Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans

in Northern Nigeria 303

Abdalla Uba Adamu

 

18 Islam in Europhone African Literature 337

Cherif Ayouba Correa

 

19 Islam and Music in Africa 363

Brendan Kibbee

 

20 Muslims and Traditional Dance Performance in Dagboŋ,

Northern Ghana 387

Tigwe Salifu Jebuni

 

Part IV African Muslims and Knowledge Systems

 

21 Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical

Assessment of Method and Rhetoric 401

Mbaye Lo

 

22 African Islamic Influences in Selected African-American

Literary Writings 439

Babacar M’Baye

 

23 Competing and Complementary Writing Systems

in the Horn of Africa 457

Ethan M. Key

 

24 Manuscript Libraries of Sub-Saharan Muslim Africa 485

Liazzat J. K. Bonate

 

25 Exploring and Preserving the Islamic Manuscript

Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa 507

Sara Fani

 

 

Part V Islam, Modernity and the Contemporary World

 

26 Islam and Activism: The Marabout and the Trade Union 535

Omar Gueye

 

27 Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the

Relationship as Seen Through Mali and Senegal 559

Claire Seulgie Lim

 

28 Private Islamic Education in Africa 577

Gana Ndiaye

 

29 Islam and Political Renaissance in Contemporary Africa 599

Afis Ayinde Oladosu

 

30 Islam and Globalization in Africa 619

Paramole Kabir Olawale and Adeniji Atanda Stephen

 

31 Islam and the Environment in African Context 643

Muazu Usman Shehu

 

32 Researching Digital Media and Islam in Africa:

Recommending a Framework 657

Ibrahim N. Abusharif

 

33 Islam and the Future of Africa: Perceptions,

Stereotypes, and the Clash of Philosophies 679

Toyin Falola

 

 

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[Gloria Emeagwali]

Many attractive chapters. Congrats to the editors and contributors.

GE

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

fantastic.

powerfully and memorably comprehensive. 

i wish, though, that there were chapters on Islamic mysticism or Sufism and Islamic or Islamic influenced visual art and perhaps Islamic and Islamic influenced film making, beyond the visual arts referenced by chapter 17, ''Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans

in Northern Nigeria.''

Islamic influenced visual art has been a strong presence since the emergence of post-classical, better known as post-colonial African art.

Representatives of such developments are either mainstream, with Islam being core to their works, or an aspect of their work without being central to that work.

A relatively recent example of such a mainstream figure is Maimouna Gueressi, Italian-Senegalese artist who projects visualizations of Islam, at times, in dialogue with African animist and Western religious sensitivities.

Others are  Rachid Koraichi, Algeria,  and Fathi Hassan, Egypt/Scotland/Italy, who explore the evocative possibilities of script, powerfully identified as scribal culture is with the central Islamic text, the Koran.

Non mainstream examples include Victor Ekpuk, Nigeria/US,  and his use of Koranic tablets, blending their structural evocativeness with the mysterious beauty of Cross River Nsibidi inspired script.

On Islamic film and Islamic inspired film, I expect there should be much to offer from such centres of artistic production as Nigeria's Kanywood and the Senegalese film industry, as in the work of Ousmane Sembene, though described as critical of Islam.

Islamic mysticism may be described as the central point of intersection between Muslims and non-Muslims, the zone of Islamic creativity, which, along with literature and architecture, is able to deliver the vitality of Islam in a way that non-Muslims can readily appreciate, even without knowing much about Islam, with such Islamic mystics as Rumi-Persian,  and Ibn Arabi-Islamic Spain, being central in any broad exploration of mystical thought.

Central figures in African Islamic mysticism include Ahmadou Hampate Ba, whose work is described as intersecting classical African and Islamic orientations  and Tierno Bokar, the latter about whom Ba wrote a book translated as  A Spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar.

Islamic mysticism is often most distinctively and clearly expressed in literature, as such texts as Kenneth Harrow's Islam in African Literature demonstrate, but beyond and integrative of its literary expressions, are conceptual expressed theological and philosophical structures which often represent the foundations of  those literary and other artistic forms, being approaches to the question of how the human being may approach an intimate relationship with ultimate reality. 

It would be beautiful if such topics were to be addressed in a later edition of this strategic and powerfully conceived work.

Apologies if I missed such discussions in the book.

toyin

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[Pamela Smith]

E ku ise naa. E ku orire o! CONGRATULATIONS on leading us with the constant and high-class productivity. We are following behind you. Ire ni o!

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[Jumoke, Ola]

This is an excellent volume in every way. A major feat. Great Congratulations to Professors Ngom, Kurfi and Falola.

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[Hezekiel Gikambi]

Congrats to the editors,

Where can I get a copy of this book?

I have friends who are scholars of African studies/Islam/religion and are asking the same question.

I am in Nairobi, Kenya.

Do you have it online or as an e-book?

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[Gloria Emeagwali]

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=palgrave+handbook+of+afrocan+islam&ref=nb_sb_noss

You can always bet on Amazon.

Unfortunately we are looking at $219.00 for the hard cover.

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Congrats to the editors,

Where can I get a copy of this book?

I have friends who are scholars of African studies/Islam/religion and are asking the same question.

I am in Nairobi, Kenya.

Do you have it online or as an e-book?

Regards,

Hezekiel Gikambi Peter

P.O. Box  18458-00100 Nairobi. Kenya

Cell:+254-722-358-448

Email:hezekie...@gmail.com

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

This is the critical intervention in Islam the Nigerian socio- political landscape has been waiting for.

It should be on the bookshelves of every university in the country and in every governmental department and governors office in northern Nigeria.

Congratulations to the editors of this great work.

OAA

Mr. President you swore an oath to rule according to the Constitution.  Where are the schools to promote the teaching of the country's lingua francas?

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

I would be interested in an ebook myself.  Palgrave is one of the global giant publishers who can deal will ebooks.

OAA.

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Congrats to the editors,

Where can I get a copy of this book?

I have friends who are scholars of African studies/Islam/religion and are asking the same question.

I am in Nairobi, Kenya.

Do you have it online or as an e-book?

Regards,

Hezekiel Gikambi Peter

P.O. Box  18458-00100 Nairobi. Kenya

Cell:+254-722-358-448

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

very impressive book but i wonder why the book does not have a chapter on Islamic terrorism/extremism one of the most important political, social and military forces in the world since the 20th century.

i sent an edited version of my earlier responses that addresses that qs but i dont know if it was posted.

thanks

toyin

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[Gloria Emeagwali]

Should I include a chapter on pedophilia and the Catholic Church in an edited work on African Christianity? Perhaps so. You have a point.

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[Femi Segun]

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[Nimi Wariboko]

Congratulations to the editors.

 

Nimi

 

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Congratulations  are in order  to the  editors and contributors on this great achievement.

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

In a world where the image of Islam is often defined by Islamic terrorism/extremism, that is a far cry from pedophilia in the Catholic church, Gloria.

A book on Islam in Africa that does not have a chapter on Boko Haram, Al-Shabbab, ISWAP, Fulani militia and other actors in the African theatre what is the world's greatest  non-state security challenge from the 20th century ongoing, raises questions about its editorial direction and the historical accuracy of the work.

I admire Falola but such admiration includes being able to point out what is an omission of strategic  significance in a project to which he is central. 

toyin

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[Sola Ayandele]

Congrats to the editors and contributors.

Olusola

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