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APPROACHING THE QUR'AN IN AFRICA - Approaches to the Qur'an in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Zulfikar Hirji. New York and London: Oxford University Press and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2019. Pp. 543. $85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780198840770).

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Approaches to the Qur'an in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Zulfikar Hirji. New York and London: Oxford University Press and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2019. Pp. 543. $85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780198840770).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2020

Ousmane Kane
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The Journal of African History , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , July 2020 , pp. 296 - 300
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1 S. Reese (ed.), The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa (Boston, 2004), S. Jeppie and S. B. Diagne (eds.), The Meanings of Timbuktu (Cape Town, 2008.), R. Launay (ed.) Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards (Bloomington, IN, 2016).

2 L. Brenner, Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power and Schooling in a West African Muslim Society (Bloomington, IN, 2001).

3 R. Ware, The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa (Chapel Hill, NC, 2014); Z. V. Wright, Living Knowledge in West African Islam: The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse (Boston, 2015).