The African Roots and Transnational Nature of Islam
Most works dealing with Islam and Africa trace the roots of their connection to the first Hijra when two groups totaling more…
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Book Review: The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and…
With the introduction of new educational systems in the Muslim world duringthe late-eighteenth through the early-twentieth…
Teaching about Islam in Africa: A Cultural-Functional Perspective
Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century focusedon this question in its report to the premier United Nations agencyin…
BOOK REVIEW: Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u…
Educating Muslim Women is a unique study of Muslim women told through the story of Nana Asma’u, a nineteenth-century Fulani woman…
Traditional Islamic Education in Asia and Africa: A Comparative Study of…
The Muslim world has witnessed the emergence of several Islamic-based institutes and universities in the last three decades, in…