Popular Islam south of the Sahara
By: edited by J.D.Y. Peel, Charles C. Stewart.
Contributors: Peel, J. D. Y. 1941-; Stewart, C. C.
Publisher: Manchester University Press in association with Africa, journal of the International African Institute
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Manchester, U.K; Wolfeboro, N.H., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Islam -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Originally published as Africa, the journal of the International African Institute, v. 55, no. 4.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : popular Islam in twentieth-century Africa / C.C. Stewart; value: Islamic protest under semi-industrial capitalism : ʼYan Tatsine explained / Paul M. Lubeck; value: Mahdist faith and the legitimation of popular revolt in western Sudan / Lidwien Kapteijns; value: Islam and state in Numaryi's Sudan / Gabriel R. Warburg; value: Drinking the Koran : the meaning of koranic verses in Berti erasure / Abdullahi Osman El-Tom; value: The role of language in West African Islam / Louis Brenner and Murray Last; value: Islam in Senegalese literature and film / Mbye B. Cham.