@book{hiskett_course_1994, location = {Edinburgh}, title = {The course of Islam in Africa}, isbn = {978-0-7486-0464-7 978-0-7486-0461-6}, url = {https://archive.org/details/courseofislamina0000hisk}, abstract = {This is an up-to-date comprehensive survey, tracing the development of Islam in Africa from the 7th century {AD} to the present day. It covers the whole continent and gives a detailed account of the Sufi mystical cosmology and the opposition to it and analyzes long-and short-term affects of the impact of European colonialism on Islamic Africa. Following a survey of the state of Islam in present day African nation states, the book concludes with a study of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and its clash with African nationalism.}, pagetotal = {218}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, author = {Hiskett, Mervyn}, date = {1994}, langid = {english}, note = {free}, keywords = {Africa, History, Islam}, }