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Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (Islam in Africa, 6)

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9004152644, 9789004152649, 9789047410386
Open Library ID
OL22738801M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
982 kB (1005941 bytes)
Pages
308\319
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians have encountered each other, borrowed or appropriated from one another, and sometimes also clashed. Contributors recast assumptions about the making and transgressing of religious boundaries, Christian-Muslim relations, and conversion. This engaging collection is a long overdue attempt to grapple with the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa.

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