Islam in Africa and the Middle East : studies on conversion and renewal /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levtzion, Nehemia
Other Authors: Abitbol, Michel, Nadan, Amos
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, [2007]
Series:Collected studies ; CS844.
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a comparative study of Islamization
  • Conversion under Muslim domination : a comparative study
  • Conversion to Islam in Syria and Palestine, and the survival of Christian communities
  • Aspects of Islamization : Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered
  • Islam in the Bilād al-Sūdān to 1800
  • Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bilād al-Sūdān
  • Islam in African and global contexts : adventures in comparative studies of Islam
  • The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bilād al-Sūdān : a study in Arab historiography
  • Slavery and slave trade in the early states of Bilād al-Sūdān
  • Religious reform in eighteenth-century Morocco (with Gideon Weigert)
  • Eighteenth century Sufi brotherhoods : structural, organisational and ritual changes
  • The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century (with Gideon Weigert)
  • The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods
  • Resurgent Islamic fundamentalism as an integrative factor in the politics of Africa and the Middle East
  • The role of Sharīa-oriented Sufi Ṭuruq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.