Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published by Northwestern University Press in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA), based at Northwestern University, Evanston. The journal incorporates Sudanic Africa, retaining its focus on historical sources, bibliographies, and methodologies.

Islamic Africa promotes interaction between scholars of Islam and Africa across all continents and across historical periods. We welcome papers on any aspect of Islam and Muslim life pertaining to Africa and/or...

Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published by Northwestern University Press in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA), based at Northwestern University, Evanston. The journal incorporates Sudanic Africa, retaining its focus on historical sources, bibliographies, and methodologies.
Islamic Africa promotes interaction between scholars of Islam and Africa across all continents and across historical periods. We welcome papers on any aspect of Islam and Muslim life pertaining to Africa and/or...

Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published by Northwestern University Press in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA), based at Northwestern University, Evanston. The journal incorporates Sudanic Africa, retaining its focus on historical sources, bibliographies, and methodologies.
Islamic Africa promotes interaction between scholars of Islam and Africa across all continents and across historical periods. We welcome papers on any aspect of Islam and Muslim life pertaining to Africa and/or...

Contents SOURCES There Was Another Man . . . and a Woman: La Nouvelle Grammaire de l'Amazighe from the L'Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe 1 Madia Thomson Abubakar Gumi's al-?Aq?da al-?a a bi-Muw?faqat al-Shar a: Global Salafi sm and Locally Oriented Polemics in a Northern Nigerian Text 9Alex Thurston ARTICLES An African Scholar in the Netherlands East Indies: al-Shaykh Ahmad Surkitti (1876-1943) and His Life, Thoughts, and Reforms 23Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk Central Sudanic Arabic scripts (Part 1): The Popularization of the Kanaw? Script 51Andrea Brigaglia The Salafi Praxis of Constructing...

Contents SOURCES A Contribution to the History of the Wahhabi Da'wa in West Africa: The Career and the Murder of Shaykh Ja'far Mahmoud Adam (Daura, ca. 1961/1962--Kano 2007)Andrea Brigaglia ARTICLES The Politicization of Muslim Organizations and the Future of Islamic- Oriented Politics in Kenya Hassan Juma Ndzovu Educating Muslim Women and the Izala Movement in Zaria City, NigeriaElisha P. Renne Islam in Kombo: The Spiritual and Militant Jih?d of Fode Ibrahim Silla TureDavid Skinner BOOK REVIEWS Review of Robert S. Kramer's Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman during the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898 Ahmed...