CENTRE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN
AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
University of Bergen

ISLAM IN AFRICA

 

Academic resources on Islam in Africa

  • Institute of Islamic Thought in Africa, Northwestern University
  • - Arabic Mansucripts from West Africa. Northwestern: Herskovits Library.
  • Institut d'études africaines, Université Mohammed V, Rabat
  • West African Arabic Manuscript Database (AMMS)
  • Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. Resource list (Leiden)

    Mali:
  • Timbuktu Libraries Project, Oslo.
  • Islamic Manuscripts from Mali, Library of Congress.
  • Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu, from Mama Haidara Library.

    Nigeria:
  • Islam in Nigeria. Resource list (Leiden).
  • Sharia debates in Africa: Sharia in Northern Nigeria.
  • Nigerian Muslims Network

    East Africa:
  • Islam in Tanzania website

    South Africa:
  • Annual Review of Islam in South Africa, Cape Town.

    Islamic groups websites:
  • Khadimu-r-rasul. Muridiya site.
  • Touba-Internet.
  • African American Islamic Institute. Kaolack-based site.
  • The Islamic Tijaniya Foundation of America.
  • The Tariqa Tijaniyya
  • La communauté Layene

  • List archive: H-Africa on Islam
  • Further links: Columbia University: Religion: Islam in Africa.

    Publications, bibliographies

  • Monograph series, Islam in Africa (Brill, 2003-)
  • Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources (Bergen, 1990-)
  • Islam et sociétés au sud du Sahara (Paris, 1987-2004). Efforts are made to re-launch this journal as a book series, to be published by Gallimard publishers.
  • Journal for Islamic Studies (Cape Town, 1981?-)
  • Islam in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, a bibliography (Paul Schrijver, Leiden)
    Bergen research on Islam in Africa >>

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