Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts

Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? / Ousmane Oumar Kane -- PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP -- ?Introduction / Zachary V. Wright -- The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal / Zachary V. Wright -- Muhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult / Dahlia E.M. Gubara -- African Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) / Chanfi Ahmed -- The Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane -- PART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP -- Introduction / Oludamini Ogunnaike -- 'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 / Ismail Warscheid -- Philosophical 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-Sharif -- A New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times / Antonio de Diego Gonzįlez -- The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear / Yunus Kumek -- PART III ISLAMIC EDUCATION -- Introduction / Britta Frede -- ?Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar / Caitlyn Bolton -- A New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting / Laura L. Cochrane -- Islamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children / Hannah Hoechner -- What does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles / Britta Frede -- ?PART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITY -- Introduction / Jeremy Dell -- Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 / Alessandra Vianello -- Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 / Lidwien Kapteijns -- A Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sėriń Moor Kayre (1874-1951) / Khadim Ndiaye -- Praise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast / Abdulkadir Hashim -- CONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives / Ebrima Sall.