Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the geographical and anthropological setting -- Is there an "African" Islam? -- The Bil�ad al-Maghrib: rebels, saints, and heretics -- The Sahara as connective space -- Dynamics of Islamization in the Bil�ad al-S�ud�an -- Dynamics of jih�ad in the Bil�ad al-S�ud�an -- Islam in Nubia and Funj -- Egyptian colonialism and the Mahd�i in the Sudan -- Ethiopia and Islam -- Muslims on the Horn of Africa -- The East African coast -- Muslims on the Cape: community and dispute -- Muslims under colonial rule.

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