Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa

<p>Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world.</p><p>Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on:</p><ul> <li>The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa</li> <li>Politics and Islamic reform</li> <li>Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims</li> <li>New technologies, media, and popular culture. </li> </ul><p>Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader sociopolitical developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. <br><br>This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology. </p> <p>1. Introduction <b>Part I: Formation of Islam in Africa: Islamic Scholarship, Literature, and Sufism </b>2. The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions 3. An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa 4. Pathways and Formations of ‘African Sufism’ <b>Part II: Dynamics of Religious Infrastructure<i> </i></b>5. A Historiography of Sub-Saharan<b> </b>African Mosques 6. Sufi Shrines as Material Space 7. The Qur’an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education <b>Part III: Islam and African Intersections </b>8. Muslim Christian Relations in Africa 9. Islam and the Question of Gender <b>Part IV: Islam, Politics, and Reform </b>10. Islam and Politics in Africa 11. Jihadism in Africa 12. African Salafism <b>Part V: Patterns of Islamic Reform in Africa </b>13. Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa 14. Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth and Twenty-first Africa 15. Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects <b>Part VI: Everyday Muslim Life </b>16. People’s Quest for Well-Being 17. Islam, Muslim Life-worlds, and Matters of the Everyday 18. Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam <b>Part VII: New Technologies and New Connectiveness </b>19. Popular Culture in Muslim Africa 20. Media, the Digital, and New Connections 21. Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label</p>