Islam on the African Continent

Zain Abdullah, “Negotiating Identities: A History of Islamization in Black West AFrica”, Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, 10/1 (2008), pp. 5-18

Uthman Sayyid Ahmad Al-Bili, Some Aspects of Islam in Africa (Ithaca Press, 2007)

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006)

Cheikh Anta Babou, Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1852-1913 (2007)

Irit Back, “From the Colony to the Post-Colony: Sufis and Wahhabists in Senegal and Nigeria”, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 42/2-3 (Jan 2008), pp. 423-445

Pade Badru and Brigid M. Sackey (editors), Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform (Scarecrow Press, 2013)

Diana Bell, “Understanding a ‘Broken World’: Islam, Ritual, and Climate Change in Mali, West Africa”, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 8/3 (2014)

Conerly Casey, “‘Marginal Muslims’: Politics and the Perceptual Bounds of Islamic Authenticity in Northern Nigeria”, Africa Today, 54/3 (Spring 2008), pp. 67-92

André Chappatte, “Night Life in Southern Urban Mali: Being a Muslim Maquisard in Bougouni”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20/3 (2014), pp. 526-544

Peter B. Clarke, West Africa and Islam: A study of Religious Development from the 8th to 20th Century (1982)

Patrick Desplat and Terje Ostebo (editors), Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism (2013)

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, “Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: In Praise of the Tijaniya Order” in John Renard (ed.), Tales of God’s Friends. Islamic Hagiography in Translation (2009)

Afyare Abdi Elmi, Understanding the Somalia Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding (2010)

Sarah Eltantawi, Shari’ah on Trial Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution (2017)

Jonathan Glassman, War of Words, War of Stone: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar (2011)

Michael A. Gomez, Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (1992)

Rosalind I.J. Hackett and Benjamin F. Soares, New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa (2014)

Sean Hanretta, Islam and Social Change in French West Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Abdulai Iddrisu, Contesting Islam in Africa: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010 (2013)

Marinus C. Iwuchukwu, Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria: The Challenges of Inclusive Cultural and Religious Pluralism (2013)

Alusine Jalloh and David E. Skinner (editors), Islam and Trade in Sierra Leone (1997) 

Marloes Janson, Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama’at (2013)

Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (editors), The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008) http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article643

Michelle C. Johnson, “‘The Proof is on My Palm’: Debating Ethnicity, Islam and Ritual in a New African Diaspora”, Journal of Religion in Africa, 36/1 (2006), pp. 50-77

Preben Kaarsholm, “Islam, Secularist Government, and State-Civil Society Interaction in Mozambique and South Africa since 1994”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 9/3 (2015), pp. 468-487

Ousman Kobo, “The Development of Wahhabi Reforms in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960-1990: Elective Affinities between Western-Educated Muslims and Islamic Scholars”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 51/3 (2009), pp. 502-532

Ousman Murzik Kobo, “Shifting Trajectories of Salafi/Ahl-Sunna Reformism in Ghana”, Islamic Africa, 6/1-2 (2015), pp. 60-81

Graziano Kratli and Ghislaine Lydon (editors), The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa (2011)

Robert Launay, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (2004)

Mara A. Leichtman, Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal (2015)

Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels (editors), History of Islam in Africa (2000)

Roman Loimeier, Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria (Northwestern University Press, 2011)

Roman Loimeier, Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology (Indiana University Press, 2013)

Paul Lovejoy, Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa (Africa World Press, 2005)

Wendell Hassan Marsh, “Dehistoricizing Islam in Africa”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35/3 (2015), pp. 656-666

B.G. Martin, Muslim Brotherhoods in 19th-century Africa (2003)

Janet McIntosh, The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries of the Kenya Coast (2009)

E. Mirmotahari, Islam in the Eastern African Novel (2011)

Michael Mumisa, “Islam and Proselytism in South Africa and Malawi,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22/2 (2002), pp. 275-298

Arye Oded, Islam and Politics in Kenya (2000)

Charlotte A. Quinn and Frederick Quinn, Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003)

Eve Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (2003)

Elisha P. Renne, “The Hijab as a Moral Space in Northern Nigeria” in  Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison (eds.), African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (2013), pp. 92-110

Noah Salomon, For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State (2016)

Lamin O. Sanneh, The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism (1997)

Gunther Schlee with Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia (2012)

Judith Scheele, “A Pilgrimage to Arawan: Religious Legitimacy, Status, and Ownership in Timbuktu”, American Ethnologist, 40/1 (2013), pp. 165-181

Dorothea E. Schulz, Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God (2011)

Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, Slaves into Workers:  Emancipation and labor in Colonial Sudan (1996)

Benjamin Soares, Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town (2005)

Abdoulaye Sounaye, “Mobile Sunna: Islam, Small Media and Community in Niger”, Social Compass, 61/1 (March 2014), pp. 21-29

Emilio Spadola, The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco (2014)

John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World: 1400-1680 (1993)

Alex Thurston, “Muslim Politics and Shari’a in Kano State, Northern Nigeria”, African Affairs, 114/454 (2015), pp. 28-51

Richard Brent Turner, “Edward Wilmot Blyden and PanAfricanism: The Ideological Roots of Islam and Black Nationalism in the United States”, The Muslim World, 87/2 (1997), pp. 169-182

Goolam Vahed, “Contesting ‘Orthodoxy’: The Tablighi-Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 23/2 (2003), pp. 313-334.

Holger Weiss, Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa (2002)

Katherine Wiley, “Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Malahfa)” in Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison (eds.), African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (2013), pp. 77-91