Author: Lewis, I. M. ; editor:
Title: Islam in Tropical Africa : Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fifth International African Seminar, Ahmadu Bello University
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1966. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, x,470 pp, Some pencilled underlinings to the first 17 pages.. Small cover stain. Good. In a rubbed, torn & chipped dustwrapper ¶ Foreword by Daryll Forde. Full title reads: "Islam in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fifth International African Seminar,Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, January 1964 / ; Edited with an Introduction by I. M. Lewis". Contains 19 papers. Includes: The Phases of Islamic Expansion & Islamic Culture Zones in Africa; The Penetration of Islam in the Eastern Sudan; Essai sur les causes et Méthodes de l' Islamisation de l'Afrique de l'Ouest du XIe Siècle au XXe Siècle; Introduction de l'Influence de l' Islam au Congo; The Jumbe of Kota Kota & Some Aspects of the History of Islam in British Central Africa; Some Aspects of the Spread of Islam in the Nuba Mountains; Acceptance & Rejection of Islam among the Boran of the Northern Frontier District of Kenya; Conformity & Contrast in Somali Islam; Sociological Factors in the Contact of the Gogo of Central Tanzania with Islam; Religion & State in the Songhyay Empire, 1494-1591; The Position of Muslims in Metropolitan Ashanti in the early 19th Century; Lat-Dyor, Damel du Kayor (1842-86) et l'Islamisation des Wolofs du Sénégal; Islam in Mossi Society; A Controversy Over Islamic Custom in Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania; Cattle Values & Islamic Values in a Pastoral Population; L'Islam Peul de L' Adamawa; The Jihad of Shehu Dan Fodio: Some Problems; The Sudanese Mahdiyya & the Niger-Chad Region; The Islamic Literary Tradition in Ghana.

Keywords: African Islam, Africa, History of Religion, Islamic, Muslim Muslims, Historical, Social Sociology, Anthropology,