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Islam and West African Indigenous Religion

Many studies have been published on the indigenous religions of various parts of West Africa, and a considerable literature exists of Christian missionary enterprise there, though on both subjects there are many gaps in our knowledge that need be filled in. Much less scholarship has been expended upon the study of Islam in West Africa. Probably more has been written in French than in English, and there is a notable series of studies by Paul Marty on Islam in each of the French West African territories, though some of these are rather superficial. Fewer works still have attempted estimate the r…