Studies in West African Islamic History

The Cultivators of Islam

John Ralph Willis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315297316
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology

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 period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan.

This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Half Title
• Studies in West African Islamic History
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Reflections on the Diffusion of Islam in West Africa
• I The Evolution of Religious Brotherhoods in North and Northwest Africa 1523–1900
• II ‘Abd Allāh b. Yāsīn and the Almoravids
• III The Kunta, Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, and the Office of Shaykh al-Ṭariq al-Qādiriyya
• IV Muslim Ṣanhāja Scholars of Mauritania
• V Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Kānimī and Religion and Politics in Bornu
• VI The Writings of al-Ḥājj ‘Umar al-Fūtī and Shaykh Mukhtār b. Wadī at Allāh: Literary Themes, Sources, and Influences
• VII The Early Period of Mahmadu Lamīn’s Activities
• VIII Maba Diakhou and the Gambian Jihād, 1850–1890
• IX Samori and Islam
• X Ahmad Bamba 1850–1927
• Glossaries
• Index of Arabic words and terms
• General Index