Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Terje Østebø -- The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions: Local, Regional, and Global Worlds / Anne K. Bang -- An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa: Local and Global Interactions / -- Scott Reese -- Pathways and Formations of 'African Sufism' / Knut S. Vikør -- A Historiography of Sub-Saharan African Mosques: From Colonialism to Modernity / Cleo Cantone -- Sufi Shrines as Material Space / Eric Ross -- The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education / Robert Launay -- Muslim Christian Relations in Africa: Tracing Transformations on the Ground and in a Growing Field of Study / Shobana Shankar -- Islam and the Question of Gender / Joseph Hill -- Islam and Politics in Africa: Politics Within and Without the State / Ahmed Ibrahim -- Jihadism in Africa / Alex Thurston -- African Salafism / Terje Østebø -- Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Roman Loimeier -- Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth and Twenty-first Africa / -- Ousman Murzik Kobo -- Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects / Abdulkader Tayob -- People's Quest for Well-Being: Tracing Islamic Healing Practices in Africa / Benedikt Pontzen -- Islam, Muslim Life-worlds, and Matters of the Everyday / Kjersti Larsen -- Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam / Louis Audet Gosselin -- Popular Culture in Muslim Africa / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Media, the Digital, and New Connections / Dorothea Schulz -- Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label: The Building of African Muslim Diasporic Communities in the West / Abdoulaye Kane.

"Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa,Politics and Islamic reform, Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims, New technologies, media and popular culture .Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader socio-political developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology"--