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The first West Africans to be converted were the inhabitants of the Sahara, the Berbers, and it is generally agreed that by the second half of the tenth century, the Sahara had become Dar al-Islam that is the country of Islam. In this chapter, we shall look at the spread of Islam in West Africa as well as the effects of Islam.
Sep 18, 2014 · In writing about Muslims in East Africa, Randall Pouwels claims in The History of Islam in Africa, “The spread of Islam took place within a wider context—one of cultural influences and migrations. In West Africa, these movements were in the same direction, from north to south, as that taken by Islam.
Sep 27, 2020 · Abstract. This chapter discusses the processes of West African Islamization as a combination of factors including the reaction of West Africans to Islam as the faith continues to provide a multitude of opportunities. Spanning from the seventh century, Islam remains essential to trading opportunities, cultural transmissions, education, and ...
Sep 27, 2020 · It argues that Islam in West African has been profoundly transformed by ancient Egypto-African belief systems that are far older than any of the Abrahamic traditions, and that the faith in Africa has been ʿAjamized (or Africanized).
Mar 17, 2021 · The history of Islam in West Africa cannot be complete without a mention, however brief, of the Jakhanke Islamic Movement which arose in the 12th century under the charismatic scholar Alhajj Salim Suwareh who helped to spread Islam in the present-day countries of Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and The Gambia, the most Islamized countries in West Africa ...
The study of ‘Islam in Africa’ as a subfield of African History has progressed substantially in the past decades by incorporating the ‘discursive approach’ developed in anthropology and history. 11 But there is a tendency towards presentism in these new works on African Muslims and very little research focuses on material prior to the colonial p...
How did the ethnic character of the Muslim Empires change over the course of the Abbasid caliphate? What is one of the ways that syncretic Islamic traditions emerged? Missionaries and political expansion moved Islamic culture, but Islamic culture also traveled through trade.
