Chiefly essays presented at a colloquium held in May 2003 at Northwestern University in Evanston. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa / Benjamin F. Soares -- African Muslims and Christians in world history: the irrelevance of the "clash of civilizations" / John Voll -- Flesh soaked in faith: meat as a marker of the boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia / Éloi Ficquet -- Missionary legacies: Muslim-Christian encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the colonial and postcolonial periods / Heather J. Sharkey -- A fifty-year Muslim conversion to Christianity: religious ambiguities and colonial boundaries in northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963 / Shobana Shankar -- The time of conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s / James F. Searing -- Christianity as seen by an African Muslim intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ / Ralph Austen -- Fundamentalism and outreach strategies in East Africa: Christian evangelism and Muslim Daʼwa / John A. Chesworth -- In my end is my beginning: Muslim and Christian traditions at cross-purposes in contemporary Nigeria / Patrick J. Ryan -- An opportunity missed by Nigeria's Christians: the 1976-78 Sharia debate revisited / Philip Ostien -- The "Sharia factor" in Nigeria's 2003 elections / Franz Kogelmann -- From resistance to reconstruction: challenges facing Muslim-Christian relations in post-apartheid South Africa / A. Rashied Omar.
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