Islam in Africa and the Middle East

Nehemia Levtzion was formerly Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. EDITORS: Michel Abitbol is Professor and Chair of the Department of African Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and Dr Amos Nadan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University and at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• Contents: Introduction: the legacy of Nehemia Levtzion 1935-2003; Nehemia Levtzion: bibliography and curriculum vitae. Part I History, Culture and Societies: Toward a comparative study of Islamization; Conversion under Muslim domination: a comparative study; Conversion to Islam in Syria and Palestine, and the survival of Christian communities; Aspects of Islamization: Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered; Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800; Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bilad al-Sudan; Islam in African and global contexts: adventures in comparative studies of Islam; The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bilad al-Sudan: a study in Arab historiography; Slavery and the slave trade in the early states of Bilad al-Sudan. Part II Revivalism, Sufism and Fundamentalism: Religious reform in 18th-century Morocco, (with Gideon Weigert); 18th-century Sufi brotherhoods: structural, organisational and ritual changes; The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the 18th century, (with Gideon Weigert); The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods; Resurgent Islamic fundamentalism as an integrative factor in the politics of Africa and the Middle East,; The role of Shari'a-oriented Sufi Turuq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries; Index.

’It is good to have the papers so readily available now. African Studies libraries certainly need to have a copy... Levtzion's work is solidly enough built to last not just as a monument to the man but as a resource for future students on the intellectual prowl.’ Journal of Islamic Studies 'Through the Variorum Collected Studies Series it is possible to gain insight into how particular scholars developed their ideas in specific fields of enquiry. This second collection of Nehemia Levtzion’s work is a welcome addition... an extremely important and useful collection of articles and provides a great testament to Levztion’s work.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies