TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,David
TI  - Muslim societies in African history
T2  - New approaches to African history
SN  - 0511164343
AV  - BP64.A1 R63 2004eb
U1  - 297.096 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Musulmans
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Islamieten
KW  - ram
KW  - swd
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. The historical and institutional background. Muhammad and the birth of Islam -- The basic institutions of Islam -- II. General themes. The islamization of Africa -- The africanization of Islam -- Muslim identity and the slave trades -- Western views of Africa and Islam -- III. Case studies. Morocco: Muslims in a "Muslim nation" -- Ethiopia: Muslims in a "Christian nation" -- Asante and Kumasi: a Muslim minority in a "sea of paganism" -- Sokoto and Hausaland: jihad within the Dar al-Islam -- Buganda: religious competition for the kingdom -- The Sudan: the Mahdi and Khalifa amid competing imperialisms -- Senegal: Bamba and the Murids under French colonial rule -- Conclusion
N2  - "Examining Islamization, Arabization, Africanization and the Muslim societies of Africa over the last thousand years, David Robinson reveals the complex struggles of Muslims throughout the continent. His study ranges through Morocco, the Hausaland region of Nigeria, the "pagan" societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda), and the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia."
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