Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar KanePART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Zachary V. WrightThe African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. WrightMuhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. GubaraAfrican Community and African ''ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi AhmedThe Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar KanePART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIPIntroduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike''Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence'': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 - Ismail WarscheidPhilosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike"If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal''s Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt''s Popular Culture: Qur''anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur''anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the ''Diaspora'': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants'' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott''s Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallo Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt''s Popular Culture: Qur''anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur''anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L.

CochraneIslamic Education and the ''Diaspora'': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants'' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott''s Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallinging ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallo Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt''s Popular Culture: Qur''anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur''anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the ''Diaspora'': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants'' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott''s Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallo Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt''s Popular Culture: Qur''anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur''anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the ''Diaspora'': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants'' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott''s Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.

1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallinging ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallinging ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sallo Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-SharifA New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego GonzálezThe Sacred Text in Egypt''s Popular Culture: Qur''anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus KumekPART III ISLAMIC EDUCATIONIntroduction - Britta FredeModernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn BoltonA New Daara: Integrating Qur''anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. CochraneIslamic Education and the ''Diaspora'': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants'' Children - Hannah HoechnerWhat does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott''s Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta FredePART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITYIntroduction - Jeremy DellBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra VianelloBringing ''Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien KapteijnsA Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim NdiayePraise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir HashimCONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the S.