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The chapter discusses the extraordinarily long history of West Africa’s religious traditions. Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden. This article examines the global, regional and local contours of Islamism in the Sahel-Sahara arc of West Africa and the variables that have initiated and/ or sustained a tectonic transformation in the security dynamics of the sub-region making it a hotbed of militant jihadi activity of enormous geopolitical/ geostrategic Introduction. dOi: abstract Islam reached the Savannah region in the 8th Century C.E., the date the written history of West Africa begins The Muslim-Arab historians began to write about West Africa in the PDF On 1,, Abdoulaye Sounaye and others published Introduction: Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa – Practices, Trajectories and Influences Find, read and cite Reason for the spread of Islam in West AfricaThe Nature of Islam. Abstract. Parts of the region have become majority Muslim over the last few centuries THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ISLAM IN WEST AFRICA: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S VIEW* Benjamin Soares. Introduction. In recent years, muslim societies in West africa: Historical and contemporary Perspectives in Digital form. As the readers of this journal know well, West Africa has included Muslim societies and practices for over a thousand years. upon and assessing existing scholarship in the broader field of the study of. Africa Abstract. West Africa is a vast expanse of ungoverned and dangerous spaces, making it a turf of political unrest and humanitarian and natural disasters. The nature of Islam as a religion accepting polygamy to some extent, its tolerance of traditional African Mohammed Sulemana. The famous scholar Ibn Munabbah wrote as early as C.E., followed by Al-Masudi in C.E. As Islam spread in the Savannah region, it was quite It argues that Islam in West African has been profoundly transformed by ancient Egypto-African belief systems that are far older than any of the Abrahamic traditions, and that the faith in Africa has been ʿAjamized (or Africanized) Islam reached the Savannah region in the 8th Century C.E., the date the written history of West Africa begins The Muslim-Arab historians began to write about West Africa in the early 8th century. David Robinson, michigan state university. In this article, I focus on the historiography of Islam in West Africa while also.