Islam in Africa and the Middle East
Subtitle: studies on conversion and renewal
By: Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos Nadan.
Contributors: Abitbol, Michel.; Nadan, Amos.
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS844; Collected studies -- CS844.
Publisher: Ashgate/Variorum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot [England]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780860789888
Subjects: Islam -- Africa -- History.; Islam -- Middle East -- History.; Muslim converts -- Africa -- History.; Muslim converts -- Middle East -- History.; Islamic renewal -- Africa -- History.; Islamic renewal -- Middle East -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a comparative study of Islamization; title: Conversion under Muslim domination : a comparative study; title: Conversion to Islam in Syria and Palestine, and the survival of Christian communities; title: Aspects of Islamization : Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered; title: Islam in the Bilād al-Sūdān to 1800; title: Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bilād al-Sūdān; title: Islam in African and global contexts : adventures in comparative studies of Islam; title: The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bilād al-Sūdān : a study in Arab historiography; title: Slavery and slave trade in the early states of Bilād al-Sūdān; title: Religious reform in eighteenth-century Morocco (with Gideon Weigert); title: Eighteenth century Sufi brotherhoods : structural, organisational and ritual changes; title: The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century (with Gideon Weigert); title: The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods; title: Resurgent Islamic fundamentalism as an integrative factor in the politics of Africa and the Middle East; title: The role of Sharīʼa-oriented Sufi Ṭuruq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.