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- ISBN 9780810884694
- Weight: 758g
- Dimensions: 163 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2013
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes in gender relations within Islam on the continent, occasioned in part by the events of 9/11 and the response of various Islamic states to growing negative media coverage. These explorations of the dynamics of religious change, reconfigured gender relations, and political reform consider not only the role of state authorities but the impact of ordinary Muslim women who have taken to challenging the subordinate role assigned to them in Islam.
Essays are far-ranging in their scope as the future of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa falls under the microscope, with contributors addressing such topics as the Islamic view of the historic Arab enslavement of Africans and colonialist ventures; studies of gender politics in Gambia, northern Nigeria, and Ghana; surveys of the impact of Sharia law in Nigeria and Sudan; the political role of Islam in Somalia, South Africa, and African diaspora communities.
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara is an ideal reader for students and scholars of international politics, comparative theology, race and ethnicity, comparative sociology, African and Islamic studies.
Pade Badru is of professor and chair of the department of social and behavioral sciences at Savannah State University. He is a former professor of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Brigid M. Sackey is professor of anthropology at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. She was trained in Ghana, Germany (Philipps University), and the United States (Temple University). She was deputy director and acting director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon in 2008 and 2009.
