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.
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2006
• מהדורה: 1st ed.
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Islam in Africa ; 6.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• הערות: Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston.

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...