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Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hardcover

IslamBible Studies

ISBN10: 0195063864
ISBN13: 9780195063868
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 6 2003
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
While nearly one in every five people in the world today is Muslim, Islam is spreading most rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where one in three Africans today practices a form of Islam. Sub-Saharan Africa is today home to over 150 million Muslims.
Although immensely varied, African Islam, the authors demonstrate, is defined by three overarching beliefs. First, African Islam is local Islam, with no ordained clergy or international body to regulate doctrine. At the same time, the importance of Islam as a source of communal identity, both within African societies and as part of the worldwide Islamic community, is a defining feature of the African Muslim worldview. Finally, there is a pervasive belief among African Muslims that the West is on a new crusade against Islam.

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