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.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--Congresses.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--Congresses.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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:

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa

African Muslims and Christians in World

Flesh Soaked in Faith: Meat as a Marker of the Boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia

Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods

A Fifty-Year Muslim Conversion to Christianity: Religious Ambiguities and Colonial Boundaries in Northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963

The Time of Conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s

Christianity as Seen by an African Muslim Intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Fundamentalism and Outreach Strategies in East Africa: Christian Evangelism and Muslim Da'wa

In My End Is My Beginning: Muslim and Christian Traditions at Cross-Purposes in Contemporary Nigeria

An Opportunity Missed by Nigeria's Christians: The 1976-78 Sharia Debate Revisited

The "Sharia Factor" in Nigeria's 2003 Elections

From Resistance to Reconstruction: Challenges Facing Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-40004-1

9786611400040

90-474-1038-6

OCLC:

290556692

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047410386 DOI