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Religion in Transforming Africa Ser.: Islamic Scholarship in Africa : New Directions and Global Contexts by Chanfi Ahmed (2021, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBoydell & Brewer, The Limited

ISBN-101847012310

ISBN-139781847012319

eBay Product ID (ePID)13050410190

Product Key Features

Number of Pages512 Pages

Publication NameIslamic Scholarship in Africa : New Directions and Global Contexts

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectAfrica / General, General, Islam / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

TypeTextbook

AuthorChanfi Ahmed

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, Education, History

SeriesReligion in Transforming Africa Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight30.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-286698

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIslamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts is an excellent contribution to an emerging discipline of Africana Muslim Studies., This book is a collection of essays that not only presents existing works and new findings, but alsoopens up new directions in the field of Islamic scholarship in Africa., This book is a collection of essays that not only presents existing works and new findings, but also opens up new directions in the field of Islamic scholarship in Africa., Islamic Scholarship in Africa is a multifaceted, fascinating collection of essays alike indispensable for its empirical findings and for its theoretical framing.

Series Volume Number5

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal001.096091767

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar KanePART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Zachary V. WrightThe African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. WrightMuhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. GubaraAfrican Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi AhmedThe Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar KanePART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike'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 WarscheidPhilosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike"If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sall

SynopsisCutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa. 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 current state and future concerns. Challenging the notion that Muslim societies in black Africa were essentially oral prior to the European colonial conquest at the turn of the 20th century, and countering the largely Western division of sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, the authors take an inclusive approach to advance our knowledge of the contribution of people of African descent to the life of Mecca. This book explores in depth the intellectual and spiritual exchanges between populations in the Maghreb, the Sahara and West Africa. A key theme is Islamic learning. The authors examine the madrasa as asite of knowledge and learning, the relationship between "diasporas" and Islamic education systems, female learning circles, and the use of ICT. Diversifying the study of Islamic erudition, the contributors look at the interactions between textuality and orality, female learning circles, the vernacular study of poetry and cosmological texts, and the role of Ajami - the use of Arabic script to transcribe 80 African languages. Africa: Cerdis, Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.

LC Classification NumberLC911