What is it about?
It is about the multiple ways in which Islamic traditions have been appropriated in Africa as they have been in other parts of the Muslim world.
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Why is it important?
It challenges and corrects the myth of the holistic illiteracy of Africa and the tendency to treat sub-Saharan Africans and other Muslims who live beyond the Arab world as "peripheral second class Muslims."
Perspectives
This publication is part of the larger effort to chart more clearly the emerging interdisciplinary field of Ajami Studies.
Fallou Ngom
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This page is a summary of: ʿAjamization of Islam in Africa, Islamic Africa, October 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00801008.
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