Rural and urban Islam in West Africa
By: edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Humphrey J. Fisher.
Contributors: Levtzion, Nehemia.; Fisher, Humphrey J.
Publisher: L. Rienner Publishers
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Islam -- Africa, West.; Africa, West -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The text of this volume was first published as volume 20/1 of Asian and African studies by the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Haifa"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Rural and urban Islam in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion; title: Merchants vs. scholars and clerics in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion; title: The economics of Islam in the southern Sahara / E. Ann McDougall; title: The shaykh's men / Lucie G. Colvin; title: Tcherno Aliou, the walí of Goumba / Lamin Sanneh; title: Dyula and Sonongui roles in the Islamization of the region of Kong / Kathryn L. Green; title: Aḥmadiyya and urbanization / May Yacoob; title: Court and periphery in Ethiopian Christianity / Steven Kaplan; title: Liminality, hijra, and the city / Humphrey J. Fisher.