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| Title: | Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa |
| Editor: | Soares, Benjamin F. |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Pages: | 308 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa (ISSN 1570-3754) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9004152644; 9789004152649 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Islam Christianity conference papers (form) 2003 |
| Abstract: | This collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent (Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Senegal, East Africa, South Africa), the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians have encountered each other, borrowed or appropriated from one another, and sometimes also clashed. Contributors recast assumptions about the making and transgressing of religious boundaries, Christian-Muslim relations, and conversion. Most of the essays in the volume were first presented at the colloquium 'Muslim/Christian encounters in Africa' of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) held at the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston in May 2003. Contributors: Ralph A. Austen, John Chesworth, Éloi Ficquet, Franz Kogelmann, A. Rashied Omar, Philip Ostien, Patrick J. Ryan, James Searing, Shobana Shankar, Heather J. Sharkey, Benjamin F. Soares and John O. Voll. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
