Islamic scholarship in Africa : new directions and global contexts /

The study of Islamic erudition in Africa is growing rapidly, transforming not just Islamic studies, but also African Studies. This interdisciplinary volume from leading international scholars fills a lacuna in presenting not only the history and spread of Islamic scholarship in Africa, but its curre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kane, Ousmane (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Suffolk : James Currey, 2021.
Colección:Religion in transforming Africa ; 5.
Temas:
Islamic learning and scholarship > Africa.
Research > Africa.
Islamic civilization.
Musulmans > Savoir et érudition > Afrique.
Recherche > Afrique.
Islamic civilization
Islamic learning and scholarship
Research
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa?
  • Ousmane Oumar Kane<br>PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP<br>Introduction
  • Zachary V. Wright<br>The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal
  • Zachary V. Wright<br>Muhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult
  • Dahlia E.M. Gubara<br>African Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century)
  • Chanfi Ahmed<br>The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa
  • Ousmane Oumar Kane<br>PART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP<br>Introduction
  • Oludamini Ogunnaike<br>'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850
  • Ismail Warscheid<br>Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa
  • Oludamini Ogunnaike<br>"If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in <i>Kitab al-Rimah</i>
  • Farah el-Sharif<br>A New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times
  • Antonio de Diego González<br>The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear
  • Yunus Kumek<br>PART III ISLAMIC EDUCATION<br>Introduction
  • Britta Frede<br>Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar
  • Caitlyn Bolton<br>A New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting
  • Laura L. Cochrane<br>Islamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children
  • Hannah Hoechner<br>What does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles
  • Britta Frede<br>PART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITY<br>Introduction
  • Jeremy Dell<br>Bringing <i>'Ilm</i> to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959
  • Alessandra Vianello<br>Bringing <i>'Ilm</i> to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959
  • Lidwien Kapteijns<br>A Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951)
  • Khadim Ndiaye<br>Praise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast
  • Abdulkadir Hashim<br>CONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives
  • Ebrima Sall

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