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At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN AFRICA --- Benjamin F. Soares -- CHAPTER ONE AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN WORLD HISTORY: THE IRRELEVANCE OF THE "CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS" --- John Voll -- CHAPTER TWO FLESH SOAKED IN FAITH: MEAT AS A MARKER OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN ETHIOPIA --- Éloi Ficquet -- CHAPTER THREE MISSIONARY LEGACIES: MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN EGYPT AND SUDAN DURING THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL PERIODS --- Heather J. Sharkey -- CHAPTER FOUR A FIFTY-YEAR MUSLIM CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY: RELIGIOUS AMBIGUITIES AND COLONIAL BOUNDARIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA, C. 1906-19631 --- Shobana Shankar -- CHAPTER FIVE THE TIME OF CONVERSION: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS AMONG THE SEREER-SAFÈN OF SENEGAL, 1914-1950S --- James F. Searing -- CHAPTER SIX CHRISTIANITY AS SEEN BY AN AFRICAN MUSLIM INTELLECTUAL: AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ --- Ralph Austen -- CHAPTER SEVEN FUNDAMENTALISM AND OUTREACH STRATEGIES IN EAST AFRICA: CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM AND MUSLIM DA'WA --- John A. Chesworth -- CHAPTER EIGHT IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS AT CROSS-PURPOSES IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA --- Patrick J. Ryan S.J. -- CHAPTER NINE AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED BY NIGERIA'S CHRISTIANS: THE 1976-78 SHARIA DEBATE REVISITED --- Philip Ostien -- CHAPTER TEN THE "SHARIA FACTOR" IN NIGERIA'S 2003 ELECTIONS --- Franz Kogelmann -- CHAPTER ELEVEN FROM RESISTANCE TO RECONSTRUCTION: CHALLENGES FACING MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA --- A. Rashied Omar -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

If before 11 September 2001, many praised Mali as a model of democracy, secularism & toleration, many have now begun to express concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Mali. I consider a number of recent public debates in Mali over morality, so-called women's issues, & the proposed changes in the Family Code & show how the perspectives of many Malians on these issues are not new but rather relate to longstanding & ongoing debates about Islam, secularism, politics, morality & law. What is new is the way in which some Muslim religious leaders have been articulating their complaints & criticisms. Since the guarantee of the freedom of expression & association in the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of independent newspapers & private radio stations & new Islamic associations with a coterie of increasingly media-savvy activists. I explore how some Muslim activists have used such outlets to articulate the concerns of some ordinary Malians, who face the contradictions of living as modern Muslim citizens in a modernizing & secularizing state where, in this age of neoliberal governmentality, the allegedly un-Islamic seems to be always just around the corner. References. Adapted from the source document.

1. Islam, politics, anthropology / Benjamin Soares and Filippo Osella -- 2. Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians / Samuli Schielke -- 3. Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo / Hatsuki Aishima and Armando Salvatore -- 4. A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- 5. Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery / Kai Kresse -- 6. Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere / Rosa De Jorio -- 7. Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis / Lara Deeb -- 8. Mukodas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan / Julie McBrien -- 9. Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism / Irfan Ahmad -- 10. Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh / Maimuna Huq -- 11. Market Islam in Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- 12. Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good / Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella -- 13. Islam and the politics of enchantment / Gregory Starrett.

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contribut