Bibliography on Islam in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa - Leiden

285 Pages·2006·1.16 MB·English

by  Paul Schrijver

Bibliography on Islam in
contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

African Studies Centre
Research Report 82 / 2006

Bibliography on Islam in
contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

Paul Schrijver
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Contents

Preface vii

I AFRICA (GENERAL) 1
II WEST AFRICA 21
West Africa (General) 21
Benin 32
Burkina Faso 32
Côte d'Ivoire 36
Gambia 39
Ghana 39
Guinea 43
Guinea-Bissau 43
Liberia 44
Mali 45
Mauritania 53
Niger 56
Nigeria 60
Senegal 114
Sierra Leone 139
Togo 141
III WEST CENTRAL AFRICA 143
Angola 143
Cameroon 143
Central African Republic 147
Chad 147
Congo 149
Gabon 150
IV NORTHEAST AFRICA 151
Northeast Africa (General) 151
Eritrea 152
Ethiopia 153
Somalia 156
Sudan 160
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V EAST AFRICA 189
East Africa (General) 189
Burundi 197
Kenya 197
Mozambique 205
Rwanda 206
Tanzania 206
Uganda 212
VI INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS 215
Comoros 215
Madagascar 217
Mauritius 218
Réunion 218
VII SOUTHERN AFRICA 219
Southern Africa (General) 219
Botswana 219
Malawi 219
South Africa 221
Zambia 243
Zimbabwe 243
VIII THE ARAB WORLD 245
IX THE WEST 249

Index of authors 253
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Preface

This bibliography on Islam in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa has been prepared as
part of the African Studies Centre/Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire project entitled
“Islam, the Disengagement of the State, and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa” that
was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The present bibliography
lists over 4,000 references to secondary literature in European languages about Islam
in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. It supplements and updates two existing biblio-
graphies, Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Partially Annotated Guide by Samir Zoghby
and Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: A Select Bibliographic Guide by Patrick
Ofori, both of which were compiled in the 1970s.1 Since then, there has been consider-
able academic interest in Islam in Africa and publications such as the Paris-based
journal Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara have regularly informed readers about new
publications on Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main objective of the present work
is to bring together bibliographical information that has been published in different
publications and to provide individuals interested in the topic with a simple and practi-
cal research tool.
The main criteria for inclusion in this bibliography can be summarized as follows.
Unlike the two aforementioned bibliographies, all items listed here deal with the
contemporary period, i.e. the period after independence from around 1960 to 2005. All
African countries are covered in this book with the exception of those bordering the
Mediterranean. The most difficult criterion to apply uniformly was the bibliography’s
scope, and this has not been strictly adhered to. The decisive factor in including works
was that the writings explicitly concerned Islam and Muslims. For this reason, publi-
cations that deal with Islam implicitly or only in an ancillary manner have not been
included. Such a pragmatic method naturally has its limitations. For example, those
domains in which some aspects of Islam may play a role, including law, education,
politics and family relations, have not been covered in a comprehensive manner.
Therefore, those who require deeper insight into the social processes and workings of
Muslim societies are advised to consult other thematic and regional bibliographies in
addition to this one. A further limitation is that the bibliography focuses primarily on
publications in English, French and German, although a few important works in other
languages have also been included. Readers interested in works in Arabic and in local
African languages should refer to the multi-volume bio-bibliographical series Arabic

1 Patrick E. Ofori, Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: A Select Bibliographic Guide (Nendeln, KTO Press
1977); Samir M. Zoghby, Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Partially Annotated Guide (Washington, Library
of Congress, 1978).
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Literature of Africa, edited by John O. Hunwick and R. Seán O’Fahey.2 Finally, no
entries from the Encyclopaedia of Islam and other Islamic Studies reference works
have been included.
This bibliography aims to be comprehensive rather than selective. The reasoning
behind this was that a potential user would be better served by an overview of the
available literature that is as full and complete as possible than by a publication
including only a limited number of titles. For this reason, the compiler did not person-
ally examine all the references included in the bibliography but instead relied heavily
upon second-hand sources such as other published and unpublished bibliographies,
library catalogues and online data. One drawback of this is that inaccuracies in the
sources may have been inadvertently reproduced. To minimize this possibility, entries
have been checked, wherever possible, against more than one bibliographical source.
Various library catalogues, including those of the African Studies Centre (Leiden),
Northwestern University, the US Library of Congress and SUDOC, were consulted.
Many thesis titles were taken from the catalogues of UMI Proquest Dissertation
Services and the Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses. A number of bibliogra-
phies that deal with both Islamic and regional studies (among them the Index
Islamicus) were consulted, as well as the reference lists in numerous recent publica-
tions on Islam in Africa. And finally, a lot of researchers responded to a call for refer-
ences that was announced on and circulated via various email lists.
Items in this bibliography are numbered sequentially and arranged geographically
according to the broad regions of Africa. There is a preliminary general section for
entries whose scope extends beyond a single region or country. Within the wide
geographical regions of West, West Central, Northeast, East Africa, Southern Africa
and the Indian Ocean islands, entries are arranged by country, and alphabetically
according to author within each country. The part on Sub-Saharan Africa is supple-
mented with two brief sections dealing with the Arab world and the West. Entries
covering two or more countries appear only once under the relevant regional heading
or in the general section. To facilitate its use, an index of authors’ names concludes
this work.
This bibliography is also available online as a fully searchable database. Many of
the entries have abstracts produced by the African Studies Centre’s library staff and
some of the others have abstracts written by the authors themselves, publishers or
journals. The online bibliography can be consulted on the website of the African
Studies Centre, Leiden.3

2 To date, four volumes have been published by Brill, Leiden: I. The Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c.
1900 (1993); II. The Writings of Central Sudanic Africa (1995); III. The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of
Northeastern Africa (2003), and IV. The Writings of Western Sudanic Africa (2003).
3 http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/Bibliographies/IslamInAfrica/

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I would like to thank those scholars who assisted in the preparation of this
bibliography. I am deeply indebted to the researchers who participated in the African
Studies Centre/Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire project and who took the time to
evaluate a preliminary version of the bibliography. I would especially like to express
my gratitude to Roman Loimeier who was kind enough to share his personal biblio-
graphical database with me. I would also like to thank my colleagues at the African
Studies Centre who generously and patiently provided me with all the support and
assistance I needed to produce this bibliography. And special thanks go to Benjamin
Soares who was closely involved in the whole project and who provided me with
invaluable comments and suggestions throughout.

Paul Schrijver
Leiden

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