Routledge handbook of Islam in Africa / edited by Terje Østebø.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Østebø, Terje, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Africa--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Islam.

Islam and politics--Africa.

Islam and politics.

Islam--Africa--Customs and practices.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Terje Østebø is Chair of the Department of Religion and Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, USA. He has joint appointments in the Department of Religion and the Center for African Studies and is also Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Florida.

Summary:

"Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa,Politics and Islamic reform, Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims, New technologies, media and popular culture .Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader socio-political developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Terje Østebø

The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions: Local, Regional, and Global Worlds / Anne K. Bang

An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa: Local and Global Interactions /

Scott Reese

Pathways and Formations of 'African Sufism' / Knut S. Vikør

A Historiography of Sub-Saharan African Mosques: From Colonialism to Modernity / Cleo Cantone

Sufi Shrines as Material Space / Eric Ross

The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education / Robert Launay

Muslim Christian Relations in Africa: Tracing Transformations on the Ground and in a Growing Field of Study / Shobana Shankar

Islam and the Question of Gender / Joseph Hill

Islam and Politics in Africa: Politics Within and Without the State / Ahmed Ibrahim

Jihadism in Africa / Alex Thurston

African Salafism / Terje Østebø

Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Roman Loimeier

Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth and Twenty-first Africa /

Ousman Murzik Kobo

Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects / Abdulkader Tayob

People's Quest for Well-Being: Tracing Islamic Healing Practices in Africa / Benedikt Pontzen

Islam, Muslim Life-worlds, and Matters of the Everyday / Kjersti Larsen

Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam / Louis Audet Gosselin

Popular Culture in Muslim Africa / Abdalla Uba Adamu

Media, the Digital, and New Connections / Dorothea Schulz

Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label: The Building of African Muslim Diasporic Communities in the West / Abdoulaye Kane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of Islam in Africa

ISBN:

9780367144241

0367144247

9781000471694

1000471691

9781000471724

1000471721

OCLC:

1264734232

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