Islamic Scholarship in Africa

OUSMANE KANE is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. His books include Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual history of Muslim West Africa (2016). OUSMANE KANE is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. His books include Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual history of Muslim West Africa (2016).

• Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar KanePART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Zachary V. WrightThe African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. WrightMuhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. GubaraAfrican Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi AhmedThe Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar KanePART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 - Ismail WarscheidPhilosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike"If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sall

Islamic Scholarship in Africa is a multifaceted, fascinating collection of essays alike indispensable for its empirical findings and for its theoretical framing.