This is the first volume of the six-volume work, "Arabic Literature of Africa", which provides a survey of Muslim authors writing in Arabic in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa and a bibliography of their works. Falling within the tradition of the great works of Brockelmann and Sezgin, it forms a basic reference tool for the study of Arabic writing ...
This text deals with the literature of Central Sudanic Africa. The majority of the work concerns Nigeria, which has produced a voluminous and varied literature. The smaller Arabic literary traditions of Chad, Cameroon and Niger are also examined, but in less depth. The work is arranged chronologically and by sub-region, and writers have been ...
This is a comprehensive historical study of the Islamic mystical brotherhoods of the northern Sudan. Based on new or previously inaccessible oral and written sources, it traces the change from lineage-based holy clans to centralized supra-tribal brotherhoods in the 19th century. It links this evolution to both external influences from Egypt and ...
The third volume in a proposed series of six, this text provides a survey of Muslim authors writing in Arabic in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa, together with a bibliography of their works.
This book is the first study of the administration of this Sudanese sultanate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be drawn from recently-discovered Arabic land charters. Translations of forty-seven selected charters and related documents are presented to illustrate the complexity of land as an issue in the sultanate. The authors review ...
In 2003, Khartoum deployed the Janjaweed militia to violently suppress a separatist rebellion, thus launching Darfur into the international spotlight. Since then, over 200,000 people have been murdered and scores more have become refugees. In order to understand the extent of this humanitarian crisis, which has developed into one of the most ...
The first biography in English of the 19th-century Moroccan mystic and teacher who spearheaded the Sufi revival in the Islamic world. Through his students and his writings, Ahmed Ibn Idris' influence is charted from Morocco to Malaysia, and from Yugoslavia south to Tanzania.
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