Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa / edited by Benjamin F. Soares.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soares, Benjamin F.

Series:

Islam in Africa ; v. 6.

Islam in Africa, 1570-3754 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Africa--Congresses.

Islam.

Christianity--Africa--Congresses.

Christianity.

Africa.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--Congresses.

Relations.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--Congresses.

Christianity and other religions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 308 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa / Benjamin F. Soares

African Muslims and Christians in world history: the irrelevance of the "clash of civilizations" / John Voll

Flesh soaked in faith: meat as a marker of the boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia / Éloi Ficquet

Missionary legacies: Muslim-Christian encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the colonial and postcolonial periods / Heather J. Sharkey

A fifty-year Muslim conversion to Christianity: religious ambiguities and colonial boundaries in northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963 / Shobana Shankar

The time of conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s / James F. Searing

Christianity as seen by an African Muslim intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ / Ralph Austen

Fundamentalism and outreach strategies in East Africa: Christian evangelism and Muslim Daʾwa / John A. Chesworth

In my end is my beginning: Muslim and Christian traditions at cross-purposes in contemporary Nigeria / Patrick J. Ryan

An opportunity missed by Nigeria's Christians: the 1976-78 Sharia debate revisited / Philip Ostien

The "Sharia factor" in Nigeria's 2003 elections / Franz Kogelmann

From resistance to reconstruction: challenges facing Muslim-Christian relations in post-apartheid South Africa / A. Rashied Omar.

Notes:

Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004152644

OCLC:

70122603

Publisher Number:

9789004152649