Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa

This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Soares, Benjamin F. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2006.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Islam in Africa ; v. 6.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009782740006719
Table of Contents:
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
  • African Muslims and Christians in World
  • Flesh Soaked in Faith: Meat as a Marker of the Boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia
  • Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods
  • A Fifty-Year Muslim Conversion to Christianity: Religious Ambiguities and Colonial Boundaries in Northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963
  • The Time of Conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s
  • Christianity as Seen by an African Muslim Intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ
  • Fundamentalism and Outreach Strategies in East Africa: Christian Evangelism and Muslim Da'wa
  • In My End Is My Beginning: Muslim and Christian Traditions at Cross-Purposes in Contemporary Nigeria
  • An Opportunity Missed by Nigeria's Christians: The 1976-78 Sharia Debate Revisited
  • The "Sharia Factor" in Nigeria's 2003 Elections
  • From Resistance to Reconstruction: Challenges Facing Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • Contributors
  • Index.