Ashley Miller is Assistant Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, USA. She specializes in the visual and material cultures of twentieth-century Morocco, with a broader expertise in issues of heritage and collective memory, the history of museums in Africa, and the entanglement of modern art production with problems of identity and representation in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Un-Disciplining African Muslim Expressive CulturesAshley MillerPart 1 – Beyond Borders: African (and) Muslim Objects as ‘Relational Loci’1. Dispersal, Decolonization, and Dominance: African Muslim Objects from the Swahili Sultanate of Witu (1858–1923)Zulfikar Hirji2. ‘A Land that Fulfils Dreams’: Rethinking Zanzibar’s Stone Town Beyond a Colonial ImaginaryMichelle ApotsosPart 2 – Disobedient Media: Reclaiming African Muslim Expressive Cultures3. ‘Disobedient’ Perspectives on African Muslim ArtsAllen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts4. Entanglements of Belonging: Regional and Global Bonds in an Urban Muslim MasqueradeLisa Homann5. Tattooing as Subversive Archive: Safaa Mazirh’s Reclamation of Tattoos in Postcolonial MoroccoCynthia BeckerPart 3 – Mobilizing Heritage: Painting Postcolonial Identities6. Calligraphy in Mauritania: Creating a Lost IdentityMark Dike DeLancey7. Possessed: The Mystical Post-Surrealism of Wifredo Lam, Abdel HadiAlex Dika Seggerman8. Cybernetics and Postcolonial UtopiasHoliday PowersPart 4 – Undisciplined Constructions: Relocating ‘Islamic’ Architecture in Africa9. Between Art and Architecture, Modernism and MakhzenEmma Chubb10. Kader Attia’s Alternative History of the Grands Ensembles, from France to Algeria and BackJacobé HuetContributor Biographies Index

'What I find most compelling about this book is that it moves beyond the well worn grand narratives in western art history such as the monumental architecture of ancient and medieval Egypt, and the Islamic dynasties that shaped the architecture of countries surrounding the Middle East, the Mediterranean and northern Africa. In this book, the relational influences demonstrate the porous nature of the African diaspora from West Africa across to the global diaspora of Cuba and France.It is a book that is rich in wonderful case studies and a wide range of both historical and contemporary works by African artists and designers... [It is] very effective in its demonstration of the complexity of the Muslim, African and diasporic actors who have contributed to the evolution of art in Africa, specifically architecture. For teachers studying the impact of Islamic art and philosophy in the contemporary world in their classrooms beyond the well-trodden western art history texts, this may be a very informative read. I found it fascinating.'