Muslim Societies in Africa A Historical Anthropology / [Recurso electrónico] :
Roman Loimeier.
- 1st ed.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the geographical and anthropological setting -- Is there an "African" Islam? -- The Bilād al-Maghrib: rebels, saints, and heretics -- The Sahara as connective space -- Dynamics of Islamization in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Dynamics of jihād in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Islam in Nubia and Funj -- Egyptian colonialism and the Mahdī in the Sudan -- Ethiopia and Islam -- Muslims on the Horn of Africa -- The East African coast -- Muslims on the Cape: community and dispute -- Muslims under colonial rule.