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

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Superior document:Islam in Africa ; 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
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Series:Islam in Africa ; 6.
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Notes:Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston.
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Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston.
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Description based on print version record.
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.
Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa -- African Muslims and Christians in World -- Flesh Soaked in Faith: Meat as a Marker of the Boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia -- Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods -- A Fifty-Year Muslim Conversion to Christianity: Religious Ambiguities and Colonial Boundaries in Northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963 -- The Time of Conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s -- Christianity as Seen by an African Muslim Intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ -- Fundamentalism and Outreach Strategies in East Africa: Christian Evangelism and Muslim Da'wa -- In My End Is My Beginning: Muslim and Christian Traditions at Cross-Purposes in Contemporary Nigeria -- An Opportunity Missed by Nigeria's Christians: The 1976-78 Sharia Debate Revisited -- The "Sharia Factor" in Nigeria's 2003 Elections -- From Resistance to Reconstruction: Challenges Facing Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Contributors -- Index.
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