Muslim Societies in African History

This book examines a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from the Muslim societies of Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims thoughout the continent: in Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria, in the societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda), and in the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia. He concludes with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement.