Islam in Africa and the Middle East: studies on conversion and renewal
Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos Nadan
Islam in Africa and the Middle East: studies on conversion and renewal
Author
Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos NadanPublisher
Ashgate/VariorumEdition 1
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Title and Author
Islam in Africa and the Middle East: studies on conversion and renewal / Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos NadanPublication Details
آلدرشات : Ashgate/Variorum، 2007مPhysical Description
1 v. )various pagings(: ill.; 32 cm.Subject
Islam Africa -- HistoryIslam Middle East -- History
Muslim converts Africa -- History
Muslim converts Middle East -- History
Islamic renewal Africa -- History
Islamic renewal Middle East -- History
series
(Variorum collected studies series؛ CS844)Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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 Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 -- Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bilad al-Sudan -- Islam in African and global contexts : adventures in comparative studies of Islam -- The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bilad al-Sudan : a study in Arab historiography -- Slavery and slave trade in the early states of Bilad al-Sudan -- 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 Sharia-oriented Sufi Turuq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries