Islam In Tropical Africa (Routledge Library Editions: International Islam) - 9781138232754

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part One Introduction -- I. Regional Review of the Distribution of Islam -- II. Agents of Islamization -- III. Islam and Political Systems -- IV. Islamic Law and Customary Practice -- V. Islam and Traditional Belief and Ritual -- VI. Islam and the Modern World -- Part Two Special Studies -- I. The Phases of . Islamic Expansion and Islamic Culture Zones in Africa -- II. The Penetration of Islam in the Eastern Sudan -- III. Religion and State in the Songhay Empire, 1464-1591 -- IV. The Position of Muslims in Metropolitan Ashanti in the Early Nineteenth Century -- V. Lat-Dyor, Damel of Kayor (1842-86) and the Islamization of the Wolof of Senegal -- VI. Islam in Mossi Society -- VII. Cattle Values and Islamic Values in a Pastoral Population -- VIII. Islam among the Fulbe of Adamawa -- IX. The Jihad of Shehu Dan Fodio: Some Problems -- X. The Sudanese Mahdiyya and the Niger-Chad Region -- XI. Conformity and Contrast in Somali Islam -- XII. The Jumbe of Kota Kota and some Aspects of the History of lslam in Malawi -- XIII. Sociological Factors in the Contact of the Gogo of Central Tanzania with Islam -- XIV. A Controversy over Islamic Custom in Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania -- Index

• | Author: I. M. Lewis
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 324 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138232750
• | ISBN-13: 9781138232754