![]() ![]() They explore a variety of media and modalities that Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa, as elsewhere, use in their engagements with the Qur’an. The book’s twelve case studies use different frameworks and methodological approaches from the academic disciplines of anthropology, art history, historiography and philology. Covering a period from the twelfth/eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania. This work aims to open up new discourses about Islam in sub-Saharan Africa through the examination of how Muslims in this geographical and socio-cultural context have engaged with the Qur’an. The paper, therefore, concludes that Islam and African traditions have been friends and not foes. Although, the two traditions have had some frictions such as the Muslim jihad which took away political power from some of the indigenous people, yet, they have generally coexisted peacefully as some African chiefs either became Muslims or African Muslims have become chiefs and sometimes even made Islam a state religion. Islam has accommodated and has been accommodated by some African traditions. The method used was a critical analysis of some values of Africans and Muslims. The framework involves the theories of inculturation, acculturation and enculturation. religious, political, social and even linguistic values have either been accommodated by or have accommodated Islam. It reviews some cultural aspects of Islam and African traditions aiming to find-out how African cultural, i.e. This paper examines the interplay of Islam and traditional African ideas, institutions and cultural practices.
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