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Covering a period from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines Muslim engagements with the Qur'an in a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania.
List of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1: Zulfikar Hirji: Introduction: Approaching the Qur'an in sub-Saharan Africa
- 2: Dmitry Bondarev: Tafs¿r Sources in Four Annotated Qur'anic Manuscripts from Ancient Borno
- 3: Tal Tamari: Qur'anic Exegesis in Manding: The Example of a Bamana Oral Commentary on S¿rat al-Räman (Q. 55)
- 4: Farouk Topan: Polemics and Language in Swahili Translations of the Qur'an: Mubarak Ahmad (d. 2001), Abdullah Saleh al-Farsy (d. 1982) and Ali Muhsin al-Barwani (d. 2006)
- 5: Gerard C. van de Bruinhorst: 'A confirmation of what went before it': Historicising a Swahili Qur'an Translation
- 6: Ryan Thomas Skinner: A Pious Poetics of Place: Islam and the Interpellation of (im)moral Subjects in Malian Popular Culture
- 7: Ruba Kana'an: 'And God will protect thee from mankind' (Q. 5:67): A Talismanic Shirt from West Africa
- 8: Adeline Masquelier: Prayer, Piety, and Pleasure: Contested Models of Islamic Worship in Niger
- 9: Kjersti Larson: By way of the Qur'an: Appeasing Spirits, Easing Emotions and Everyday Matters in Zanzibar
- 10: Susan J. Rasmussen: The Woman who Did Not Become Possessed: Tuareg Islam and the Problem of Gendered Knowledge and Power in a Visitational Dream
- 11: Joseph Hill: Women Who are Men: Daughters of Shaykh Ibrahim Ñas and the Paradoxes of Women's Religious Leadership in Senegal
- 12: Andrea Brigaglia: From the Tablet to Paper Leaves: Islamic Metaphysics and the Symbolism of Traditional Qur'anic Education in Hausaland (Nigeria)
- 13: Zulfikar Hirji: 'The Siyu Qur'ans: Three Illuminated Qur'an Manuscripts from Coastal East Africa'
About the author
Zulfikar Hirji is Associate Professor at York University, Toronto. His research focuses on the diverse social and cultural expressions of Muslims in historical and contemporary contexts. He has conducted archival and field-based research in the Middle East, East Africa, South Asia, Europe, and North America. His publications include The Ismailis: An Illustrated History (2008), Diversity and Pluralism in Muslim Contexts (2010), Between Empires (2012), and Islam: An Illustrated Journey (2018).
Summary
Covering a period from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines Muslim engagements with the Qur'an in a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania.
