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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara - Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform (Hardcover)
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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara - Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform (Hardcover)
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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and
Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that
focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and
their effects on the political terrain and civil society.
Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations
within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of
9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative
media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious
change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform
consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of
ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the subordinate
role assigned to them in Islam. Essays are far-ranging in their
scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the
microscope, with contributors addressing such topics as the Islamic
view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist
ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria,
and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and
Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and
African diaspora communities. Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international
politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative
sociology, African and Islamic studies.
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