TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levtzion, Nehemia.
AU  - Abitbol, Michel.
AU  - Nadan, Amos.
TI  - Islam in Africa and the Middle East: studies on conversion and renewal 
T2  - Variorum collected studies series
SN  - 9780860789
AV  - BP64.A1 L48 2007
U1  - 297.096 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot [England], Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate/Variorum
KW  - Islam
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Muslim converts
KW  - Islamic renewal
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Toward a comparative study of Islamization -- Conversion under Muslim domination : a comparative study -- Conversion to Islam in Syria and Palestine, and the survival of Christian communities -- Aspects of Islamization : Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered -- Islam in the Bilād al-Sūdān to 1800 -- Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bilād al-Sūdān -- Islam in African and global contexts : adventures in comparative studies of Islam -- The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bilād al-Sūdān : a study in Arab historiography -- Slavery and slave trade in the early states of Bilād al-Sūdān --  Religious reform in eighteenth-century Morocco (with Gideon Weigert) -- Eighteenth century Sufi brotherhoods : structural, organisational and ritual changes -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century (with Gideon Weigert) -- The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods -- Resurgent Islamic fundamentalism as an integrative factor in the politics of Africa and the Middle East -- The role of Sharīʾa-oriented Sufi Ṭuruq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034263.html
ER  -