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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
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2013
Summary
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of 9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the surbodinate role assigned to them in Islam.
Essays are far-ranging in their scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the microscope, with contributing addressing such topics as the Islamic view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria, and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and African diaspora communities.
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative sociology, African and Islamic studies.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8469-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8470-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
416
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Islam and the African World No access
Chapter 2. Basic Doctrines of Islam and Colonialism in Africa No access
Chapter 3. Arab Enslavement of Africans: An Islamic Viewpoint No access
Chapter 4. One Hundred Years of Muslim Community in Accra: A Historical Study of Tudu from 1900 to 2000 No access
Chapter 5. Renegotiating Gender: Changing Moral Practice in the Tablighi Jama’at in the Gambia No access
Chapter 6. The Status of Women in Islam: Perceptions from a Visit to the Madina Central Mosque in Accra, Ghana No access
Chapter 7. Muslim Women in Political Leadership in Hausa Society of Northern Nigeria No access
Chapter 8. Islamic Call: The Role of Women in Da’wah Activities, Dagbon, Northern Ghana—The Case of Hajia Mariam Alolo No access
Chapter 9. Religious Experience and Women Leadership in Nigerian Islam No access
Chapter 10. Nigeria’s Sharia Criminal Procedure Codes No access
Chapter 11. Sharia Implementation and Female Muslims in Nigeria’s Sharia States No access
Chapter 12. The Past in the Present? The Issue of Sharia in the Sudan No access
Chapter 13. Religious Models for Peace and War in a Heterogeneous Society: A Case Study of the Sharia Law Model in Yorubaland No access
Chapter 14. Islamic Political Dynamics in the Somali Civil War No access
Chapter 15. Islam vs. Islamism: The South African Dimension No access
Chapter 16. Political Islam in the African Diaspora: A History of the Nation of Islam No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 387 - 394
Glossary of Islamic Words No access Pages 395 - 398
