Islam in Africa and the Middle East: studies on conversion and renewal
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Aldershot ]England[ ; Burlington, VT
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Ashgate/Variorum
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Variorum collected studies series
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CS844
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos Nadan
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 0081 -- 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 81th and 91th centuries