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Arabic Literature of Africa A Contribution to the Intellectual History of Islam

John Hunwick and R.S. O’Fahey have embarked upon a joint project in collaboration with a number of other scholars, for the publication of a seven-volume work under the general title ‘Arabic Literature of Africa’. The work is being published by E.J. Brill of Leiden and the first two volumes of the series have already appeared (1994 and 1995). The series is under the joint general editorship of Hunwick and O’Fahey. The editors take it as axiomatic that we cannot understand the trends and currents of Muslim discourse in Africa, its relationship to wider Islamic discourses and its local shaping by…