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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163868403321

Titolo

Islam in tropical Africa / / edited and with an Introduction by I.M. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-31141-0

1-315-31139-9

1-315-31140-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: International Islam ; ; Volume 4

Altri autori (Persone)

LewisI. M

Disciplina

297/.096

Soggetti

Islam - Africa

Muslims - Africa

Africa History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Second edition published in Hutchinson University Library for Africa 1980.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part Part One Introduction -- chapter I Regional Review of the Distribution of Islam -- chapter II Agents of Islamization -- chapter III Islam and Political Systems -- chapter IV Islamic Law and Customary Practice -- chapter V Islam and Traditional Belief and Ritual -- chapter VI Islam and the Modern World -- chapter I The Phases of. Islamic Expansion and Islamic Culture Zones in Africa -- chapter II The Penetration of Islam in the Eastern Sudan -- chapter III Religion and State in the Songhay Empire, 1464-1591 -- chapter IV The Position of Muslims in Metropolitan Ashanti in the Early Nineteenth Century -- chapter V Lat-Dyor, Damel of Kayor (1842–86) and the Islamization of the Wolof of Senegal -- chapter VI Islam in Mossi Society -- chapter VII Cattle Values and Islamic Values in a Pastoral Population -- chapter VIII Islam among the Fulbe of Adamawa -- chapter IX The Jihad of Shehu Dan Fodio: Some Problems -- chapter X The Sudanese Mahdiyya and the Niger-Chad Region -- chapter XI Conformity and Contrast in Somali Islam -- chapter XII The Jumbe of Kota Kota and some Aspects of the History of lslam in Malawi -- chapter XIII Sociological Factors in the Contact of the Gogo of Central Tanzania with Islam -- chapter XIV A Controversy over Islamic Custom in Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania.