Add to ORKGThe academic study of Islam and of Muslim societies in sub-Saharan Africa has developed during the past thirty years more as part of African studies than of Islamic studies. Islamic studies in Africa has therefore not been so deeply influenced by the orientalist heritage of Western scholarship that prevailed among those who studied Islam in the central Muslim regions. On the other hand, the global resurgence of Islam that has taken place during the same period, in all its social, political, religious and indeed academic forms, has had a profound influence on African Islamic studies
Abdulkader Tayob, from the University of Cape, joins the ISIM as the ISIM Chair at the University of...
In the words of Fafunwa, Islamic literacy in Yoruba land had been an important factor that had cont...
Early in 2003, African Muslims in Uitenhage’s township Kwa-Nobuhle learnt that Muslim women led by S...
Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geograp...
Until now, researchers on Islam in Africa have paid little attention to the continent’s southern t...
This is but a humble attempt to frame a discussion on Islam, prophetic voices and geographical space...
In this paper, the author considers the interpretation of and the ethnographic production about Isla...
© 2012 Dr. Mohammed HafizThis thesis forms part of a general attempt to understand the influence of ...
Arabic and Islamic Studies are important subjects that helped in the economic, moral, social, politi...
African Studies has evolved as an academic initiative dealing with research and scholarship on the c...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edinburgh University Pre...
The earliest concrete evidence of Islam and Muslims in eastern Africa is a mosque foundation in Lamu...
The following writing shows the historicity of Islamic studies in the West. It is important to refle...
For most of the twentieth century, the study of Islam in Africa was informed by the “area studies” f...
Explores the vibrant, divided and evolving field of Islamic studies in Europe and North AmericaCover...
Abdulkader Tayob, from the University of Cape, joins the ISIM as the ISIM Chair at the University of...
In the words of Fafunwa, Islamic literacy in Yoruba land had been an important factor that had cont...
Early in 2003, African Muslims in Uitenhage’s township Kwa-Nobuhle learnt that Muslim women led by S...
Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geograp...
Until now, researchers on Islam in Africa have paid little attention to the continent’s southern t...
This is but a humble attempt to frame a discussion on Islam, prophetic voices and geographical space...
In this paper, the author considers the interpretation of and the ethnographic production about Isla...
© 2012 Dr. Mohammed HafizThis thesis forms part of a general attempt to understand the influence of ...
Arabic and Islamic Studies are important subjects that helped in the economic, moral, social, politi...
African Studies has evolved as an academic initiative dealing with research and scholarship on the c...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edinburgh University Pre...
The earliest concrete evidence of Islam and Muslims in eastern Africa is a mosque foundation in Lamu...
The following writing shows the historicity of Islamic studies in the West. It is important to refle...
For most of the twentieth century, the study of Islam in Africa was informed by the “area studies” f...
Explores the vibrant, divided and evolving field of Islamic studies in Europe and North AmericaCover...
Abdulkader Tayob, from the University of Cape, joins the ISIM as the ISIM Chair at the University of...
In the words of Fafunwa, Islamic literacy in Yoruba land had been an important factor that had cont...
Early in 2003, African Muslims in Uitenhage’s township Kwa-Nobuhle learnt that Muslim women led by S...