Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? - Ousmane Oumar Kane
PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, & ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP
Introduction - Zachary V. Wright
The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal - Zachary V. Wright
Muhammad al-Kashnawi and the Everyday Life of the Occult - Dahlia E.M. Gubara
African Community and African 'ulama in Mecca: Al-Jami and Muhammad Surar al-Sabban (Twentieth Century) - Chanfi Ahmed
The Transfomation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa - Ousmane Oumar Kane
PART II TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP
Introduction - Oludamini Ogunnaike
'Those Who Represent the Sovereign in his Absence': Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the pPre-Modern Sahara (Southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali), 1750-1850 - Ismail Warscheid
Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa - Oludamini Ogunnaike
"If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear": Umar Tal's Approach to Jurisprudence in Kitab al-Rimah - Farah el-Sharif
A New African Orality? Tijani Sufism, Sacred Knowledge and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times - Antonio de Diego González
The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture: Qur'anic Sounds, Meanings and Formation of Sakina-Sacred Space in Traditions of Poverty and Fear - Yunus Kumek
PART III ISLAMIC EDUCATION
Introduction - Britta Frede
Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar - Caitlyn Bolton
A New Daara: Integrating Qur'anic, Agricultural and Trade Education in a Community Setting - Laura L. Cochrane
Islamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children - Hannah Hoechner
What does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Examples from Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles - Britta Frede
PART IV AJAMI, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, & SPIRITUALITY
Introduction - Jeremy Dell
Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Alessandra Vianello
Bringing 'Ilm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1959 - Lidwien Kapteijns
A Senegalese Sufi Saint and Ajami Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) - Khadim Ndiaye
Praise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals on the Late Twentieth-Century Kenya Coast - Abdulkadir Hashim
CONCLUSION: The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa: Bridging Knowledge Divides, Reframing Narratives - Ebrima Sall