Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa

This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians have encountered each other, borrowed or appropriated from one another, and sometimes also clashed. Contributors recast assumptions about the making and transgressing of religious boundaries, Christian-Muslim relations, and conversion. This engaging collection is a long overdue attempt to grapple with the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa

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.