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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of 9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the surbodinate role assigned to them in Islam.

Essays are far-ranging in their scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the microscope, with contributing addressing such topics as the Islamic view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria, and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and African diaspora communities.

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative sociology, African and Islamic studies.
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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of 9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the surbodinate role assigned to them in Islam.

Essays are far-ranging in their scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the microscope, with contributing addressing such topics as the Islamic view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria, and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and African diaspora communities.

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative sociology, African and Islamic studies.
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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform

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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of 9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the surbodinate role assigned to them in Islam.

Essays are far-ranging in their scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the microscope, with contributing addressing such topics as the Islamic view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria, and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and African diaspora communities.

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative sociology, African and Islamic studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810884700
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 05/23/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 428
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Pade Badru is of professor and chair of the department of social and behavioral sciences at Savannah State University. He is a former professor of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Brigid M. Sackey is professor of anthropology at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. She was trained in Ghana, Germany (Philipps University), and the United States (Temple University). She was deputy director and acting director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon in 2008 and 2009.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Acknowledgments xi

Part I Historical Origins of Islam in Africa and the Basic Principles of Islamic Theocracy

1 Islam and the African World Sulayman S. Nyang 3

2 Basic Doctrines of Islam and Colonialism in Africa Fade Badru 27

3 Arab Enslavement of Africans: An Islamic Viewpoint Olayinka Kudus Amuni 47

4 One Hundred Years of Muslim Community in Accra: A Historical Study of Tudu from 1900 to 2000 Samuel A. Ntewusu 67

Part II Gender Relations within Islam in Africa

5 Renegotiating Gender: Changing Moral Practice in the Tablighi Jama'at in the Gambia Marloes Janson 99

6 The Status of Women in Islam: Perceptions from a Visit to the Madina Central Mosque in Accra, Ghana Brigid M. Sackey 121

7 Muslim Women in Political Leadership in Hausa Society of Northern Nigeria Fatima L. Adamu John V. Mensah 151

8 Islamic Call: The Role of Women in Da 'wah Activities, Dagbon, Northern Ghana-The Case of Hajia Mariam Alolo Issah Alhassan Abubakari Alhassan Sidemana Anamzoya 165

9 Religious Experience and Women Leadership in Nigerian Islam David O. Ogungbile 187

Part III The Sharia Code and Conditions of Women in African Islam

10 Nigeria's Sharia Criminal Procedure Codes Philip Ostien 207

11 Sharia Implementation and Female Muslims in Nigeria's Sharia States Jamila M. Nasir 247

12 The Past in the Present: The Issue of Sharia in the Sudan R. S. O'Fahey 299

13 Religious Models for Peace and War in a Heterogeneous Society: A Case Study of the Sharia Law Model in Yorubaland Lateef Mobolaji Adetona 313

Part IV Political Islam and Africa and the African Diaspora

14 Islamic Political Dynamics in the Somali Civil War Roland Marchal 331

15 Islam vs. Islamism: The South African Dimension Hussein Solomon 355

16 Political Islam in the African Diaspora: A History of the Nation of Islam Pade Badru 367

Selected Bibliography 387

Glossary of Islamic Words 395

Index 399

Contributors 413

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