Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa / / edited by Benjamin Soares.

• Superior document: Islam in Africa ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Soares, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islam in Africa ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Notes: Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281400041; 9786611400040; 9047410386
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Benjamin Soares.

This timely 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, 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. This engaging collection is a long overdue attempt to grapple with the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa.