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[A]n excellent source of reading matter for scholars of Islam in Africa, students of Islamic studies, Sufism, and African studies. . . . an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library. --Journal of Islamic Studies A valuable contribution to scholarship and teaching . . . enthusiastically recommended. --Journal of African History

"""[A]n excellent source of reading matter for scholars of Islam in Africa, students of Islamic studies, Sufism, and African studies. . . . an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library.""--Journal of Islamic Studies ""A valuable contribution to scholarship and teaching . . . enthusiastically recommended.""--Journal of African History"

"""[A]n excellent source of reading matter for scholars of Islam in Africa, students of Islamic studies, Sufism, and African studies. . . . an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library.""—Journal of Islamic Studies ""A valuable contribution to scholarship and teaching . . . enthusiastically recommended.""—Journal of African History"

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Rudolph Ware is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Michigan, and the founder and director of the IKHLAS research initiative for the study of Islamic Knowledge, Histories and Languages, Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa (2014) and several articles on slavery in Islamic Africa and the Atlantic World. Zachary Wright is associate professor of history and religious studies at Northwestern University in Qatar. His research concerns Islamic revivalism and the religious sciences, especially Sufism, in North and West Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. He is the author of Living Knowledge in West African Islam: The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse (2015). Amir Syed is a visiting assistant professor of the history of the Islamic world at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include issues related to the construction of religious authority, scholarly culture, and Islamic knowledge practices.

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