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This is a study of the Islamic religion in contemporary West Africa. It encompasses religion, society and politics up to the year 1800.

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• Introduction
• Patterns of Islamization in West Africa
• Slavery and Islamization in Africa
• Islam in West African politics: accommodation and tension between the 'ulama' and the political authorities
• Sociopolitical roles of Muslim clerics and scholars in West Africa
• Merchants versus scholars and clerics: differential and complementary roles
• Rural and urban Islam in West Africa: an introductory essay
• The 18th century: background to the Islamic revolutions in West Africa
• 18th-century renewal and reform in Islam: the role of sufi turuq in West Africa
• Notes on the origins of Islamic militancy in the Futa Jallon
• Berber nomads and Sudanese states: the historiography of the desert-sahel interface
• The Jews of Sijilmasa and the Saharan trade
• 'Abd Allah ibn Yasin and the Almoravids
• Mamluk Egypt and Takrur (West Africa)
• Ibn Hawqal, the cheque and Awdaghust
• Ancient Ghana: a reassessment of some Arabic sources
• The 12th century anonymous Kitab al-Istibsar: a history of a text
• The 13th- and 14th-century kings of Mali
• A 17th century chronicle by Ibn al-Mukhtar: a critical study of Ta'ikh al-Fattah
• Early 19th century manuscripts from Kumasi
• Index