Bibliography on African IslamCompiled by Kelly Pemberton from submissions to RISA-L (November 15, 1999).Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999) Farid Esack, Qur'an, Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression (Oxford: Oneworld, 1996) Abdulkader Tayob, Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams, and Sermons (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 1999) Tayeb Salih, The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories "Popular Islam, in Tayyeb Salih's Works," JAL 11 (1980): 88-104 Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure (Heineman, 1998) Other useful sources are: Mervyn Hiskett, The Development of Islam in West Africa (London, Longman Group, 1984) A bit dense, but very informative Lamin Sanneh's The Crown and the Turban (Boulder: Westview Press,1997) I also found a couple of the articles in Barbara Metcalf's Making Muslim Space (Berkeley: UC Press, 1996) to be very helpful for a view of some of the issues facing African Muslims abroad, particularly: "'Refuge' and 'Prison': Islam, Ethnicity, and the Adaptation of Space in Workers' Housing in France" and "Making Room Versus Creating Space: The Construction of Spatial Categories by Itinerant Mouride Traders" Top of Page | RISA Home PageRevised: September 29, 2002 |