Islam in Tropical Africa

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First published in 1980, this second edition of Islam in Tropical Africa presents specialist studies of the history and sociology of Muslim communities in Africa south of the Sahara. The studies cover an extensive and range of time and place, and include consideration of particular aspects of Muslim belief and practice in regions such as Senegal and Somalia. The second edition includes an updated introduction which draws attention to the ways in which differently organized traditional cultures and social systems had reacted and adapted to Muslim influence in the field of politics, law and ritual in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to those studying Islam, African studies and ethnography. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Original Title Original Copyright CONTENTS Preface to the Second Edition Part One Introduction I. Regional Review of the Distribution of Islam II. Agents of Islamization III. Islam and Political Systems IV. Islamic Law and Customary Practice V. Islam and Traditional Belief and Ritual VI. Islam and the Modern World Part Two Special Studies I. The Phases of . Islamic Expansion and Islamic Culture Zones in Africa II. The Penetration of Islam in the Eastern Sudan III. Religion and State in the Songhay Empire, 1464-1591 IV. The Position of Muslims in Metropolitan Ashanti in the Early Nineteenth Century V. Lat-Dyor, Damel of Kayor (1842–86) and the Islamization of the Wolof of Senegal VI. Islam in Mossi Society VII. Cattle Values and Islamic Values in a Pastoral Population VIII. Islam among the Fulbe of Adamawa IX. The Jihad of Shehu Dan Fodio: Some Problems X. The Sudanese Mahdiyya and the Niger-Chad Region XI. Conformity and Contrast in Somali Islam XII. The Jumbe of Kota Kota and some Aspects of the History of lslam in Malawi XIII. Sociological Factors in the Contact of the Gogo of Central Tanzania with Islam XIV. A Controversy over Islamic Custom in Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania Index