Book of Donmon Teith

First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged peri

Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colon

Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religi

Studies in West African Islamic History explores the diffusion of Islam throughout West Africa from 1523 to 1927. Beginning with a discussion of the evolution o