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al-ʿAbbas b. Muhammad Saganogo
ʿAbdallah Bakathir
ʿAbdalla b. Haji Mkwanda
ʿAbd Allah Niasse
ʿAbdalla Saleh al-Farsy
ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jilani
ʿAbd al-Qadir Kan
ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Mahdi
ʿAbd al-Rahman Qasim
ʿAbd al-Rahman Zaghaite
ʿAbd al-Ralf
ʿAbd al-Salam Shaun
ʿAbd al-Salam Shebang
ʿAbd al-Wahhab
ʿAbdul-ʿAziz b. ʿAbdul-Ghani
Abubakar Gummi
Abu Bakr b. Ali Kunate
Abu Bakr Effendi
Abu Bakr Kato
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Abu Bakr b. ʿUmar
Abu Ishaq al-Sahili
Abuʾl-Hasan al-Shadhili
Adal
Aden
al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din
Shaykh Ahmad
Ahmad Baba
Ahmad b. Sumayt
Ahmad b. Yahya al-Wansharisi
Ahmad Gran
Ahmad Hamallah and Hammallism
Ahmad ibn Idris
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadu Bamba
Ahmadu Bello
Ahmadu Lobo
Akan
Alawids
ʿAlawiyya
alfas
Algeria
ʿAli al-Mirghani
ʿAli b. Abdallah Mazrui
ʿAli Ghaji Dunama
Almohads
Almoravids
Amharic
al-Amin b. ʿAli Mazrui
Amin, Idi
amulets, charms, and divining
Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
Angoche
Aqit family
Arabia
Saudi
Arabic
education
literacy
arma
Arnaud, Robert
Asante
Askia Dawud
Askia Ismaʿil
Askia Muhammad
Askia Musa
associations. See also isnad and silsila
Attahim dan Ahmadu
Awdaghust
Aw Yusuf Barkhadle
Azhar
Baghirmi
Bahaud-Din Zakariyya
al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd ʿAbd Allah. See also Muhammad al-Bakri
Bakwata
Bambara
Bambuk/Bambuhu
Banda, Hastings
Bantu languages
Bantu-speakers
baqt treaty
baraka
Barawa/Brava
Barghash b. Said al-Busaidi
Shaykh Barkhandle
Bédié, Henri Konan
Beja
Benadir coast
Berbers. See also names of individual groups
Biafran War
Bighu/Begho
Bilad al-Sudan, chap. 3
Birago Diop
Biton Kulibali
Black Volta, chap 4
Bonduku
Bori
Bornu
Boure
Brava. See Barawa/Brava
Brevié, Jules
British
British colonialism
Buganda
Buna
Bundu
burnus
Busaidi
Cairo
Caliphs
Abbasid
Umayyad
Cape Colony/Cape Town
Cayor/Kayor
Chad
Chatelier, Alfred Le
chiefs and kings. See also names of individuals
China
Christians. See also missionaries and proselytization
Copts
Roman Catholics and Catholicism
clerics. See ʿulamaʾ
colonialism. See British; French; Germans; Italian colonialism; Portuguese
Congo
conversion (to Islam)
Coppolani, Paul
Côte d’Ivoire
Cushitic. See also Oromo; Somalis
Dada Masiti
Dagomba
Dahlak Islands
Dandarawiyya
Dan Marina. See Muhammad al-Sabbagh
Dar Fur
decolonization
Delafosse, George
Deniankobe, of Fur a Toro
Dia. See Zagha
disease, chap. 21
diviners (Muslim)
Do
Dogon
Dunama
Dutch
Dutch East India Co.
Dyula. See Juula
education and scholarship
Islamic
Western
womenʿs
See also Arabic
Egypt and Egyptians
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Fadiliyya
Faidherbe, Louis
Fatimids
Fez
Fezzan
fiqh/fuqahaʾ
Frelimo
French
French colonialism
Fulbe/Fulani
Fulfulde/Pulaar language and literature
Furno Liyongo
fundamentalism (Islamic). See also Wahhabis
Funj. See also Sinnar
Futa Jallon
Fura Toro
Gao
Germans
German colonialism
Ghana kingdom
Ghana (nation)
al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid
Gnawa
Gobir
Gonja
Gouilly, Alphonse
Gozo
Grang, John
Guinea
Hadhramaur and Hadhramis
hadith
Hafziyya
Haile Salassie
hajj. See pilgrimage
al-Hajj ʿUmar. See ʿUmar Tal
Hamawiyya
Hamdullahi
Shayk Hamidou Kane
Hampate Ba
Hanafis and Hanafi law
Harar
Hasan al-Banna
Hasan al-Turabi
Hassan, Banu
Hassan al-Mirghani
Hausa
Hausa language and literature
Hausaland. See also names of individual city-states
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
Husayn b. Mahmud
Husayn of Bale
Ibadi(s)
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Yasin, Abdallah
Ibrahim Maje
Ibrahim Muhaddis Qadiri
Ibrahim al-Rashid
Ibrahim Tahir
Mai Idris Alawma
Idrisiyya
Igbo
imamate
India and Indians
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean trade
Indonesia
infidels
Iran
Islam Noir
Ismaʿil Kamagate
Ismaʿiliyya
isnad/asanid
Italian colonialism
Ja. See Zagha
Jakhanke
jallaba
Jallal al-Din al-Suyuti
jamaʾa. See associations
Jamaʾat Tabligh
Jamal al-Layl, clan
Java
Jenne
jihad
Jolof
Juddala
Juula
Kaarta
Kabora
Kaduna
kalifo
Kamagate
Kamara Laye
Kamba
Kanem
al-Kanemi, Muhammad al-Amin
Kankan
Kano
Kanuri
Kaolack
karamoko. See under ʿulamaʾ
Karamo Sa Watara
Karamo Togma
Katsina
Kawkaw
Kayar. See Cayar
Keita, Modibo
Kenya
Kenyatta, Jomo
Khalid Balala
Kharijis (Khawarij). See also Ibadis
Khatmiyya
Kilwa
Kofi Kakari
Koli Tengella
Koma (secret society)
Kong
Kordofan
Kumbi Saleh
Kunta
al-Kunti, Sidi Mukhtar
Kutama
Kwakll Dua Panin
Lamu
law (Islamic). See also names of individual sects
Libya
Lugard, Frederick
Ma al-Aynayn
Madagascar
madrasas
al-Maghili, Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim
Maghrib
Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad)
mahdis and mahdism
Mahdiyya
Mahmud ibn ʿUmar Aqit
Mahmud Karantaw
Mahmudiyya
Maitatsine. See Muhammad Marwa
Makonde
Makua
Maklllu, Jamil
Makuria
Malal
Malawi
Malays (Cape)
Mali (kingdom of)
Mali (nation of)
Maliki law
Malik Sy
Malindi
Malinke. See Manding
mallamati. See under ʿulamaʾ
Mamadou Dia
Mamprussi
Manden. See Manding
Manding/Mandingue/Mandinke
Mansa Musa
Mansa Suiayman
Manyema
marabouts. See also zawiya
Mardykers
Marka (town of)
Marka/Marika
Marrakesh
Marty, Paul
Masina/Massina
Masmuda
Massufa
Mauritania
mawlids
Mende
Menelik
merchants and trade
Mijikenda
Mirambo
missionaries and proselytizing, Christian
Modibo Muhammad al-Kabori
Mogadishu
Mohammad Zaki
Moi, Daniel Arap
Mombasa
Morocco
mosques and schools
Mossi
Mourides, murid See Muridiyya.
Mozambique
Mrima coast
Mtumwa bti. ʿAli b. Yusuf
Muhammad Abdallah Hasan
Muhammad ʿAbduh
Muhammad al-Bakri
Muhammad ʿAli Pasha
Muhammad Bello
Muhammad al-Buni
Muhammad Duguri
Muhammad Marhaba Saganogo
Muhammad Maʾrufb. Sh. Ahmad
Muhammad Marwa (Maitatsine)
Muhammad al-Muqrani
Muhammad al-Mustafa b. ʿAbbas Saganogo
Muhammad Rumfa
Muhammad al-Sabbagh
Muhammad h. Salih al-Rashidi
Muhammad Shafiʿi b. Askari
Muhammad ʿUthman al-Mirghani
Muhammadiyya
Mukhtariyya
Mukhtasar of Khalil b. Ishaq
Mumia’s (Wanga people)
Muridiyya
Musaveni, Yoweri
Musawwa
Muslim Brotherhood
Mutesa
Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas
Mwinyi, ʿAli Hassan
Nana Asmaʾu
Nasir al-Din
National Salvation Revolution
N’Gazargamu
Ngolo Diara
Niasiyya
Niger
Nigeria; northern
Nkhotakota
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nubia
Nubians
Numayri, Jaʾfar
Nyamwezi
Nyerere, Julius
Oman and Omanis. See also Busaidi
Opoku Ware
Organization of the Islamic Conference
Oromo
Osei Tutu
Ottomans
Ouattara, Alhassane
Pan-Islam
Park, Mungo
Parti démocratique de Guinée
Pemba
Persian Gulf
Persians
pilgrimage (hajj)
Pir
Pokomo
Ponty, William
Portuguese
preachers and holy men (Muslim)
al-Qabisi
Qadiriyya
qadis
Qallu
Qanbalu (Ras Mkumbuu)
Qayrawan
Quran
Quran exegesis
Quran reciting
Quran schools
Quran studies
Quran teachers
Rabih Fadl Allah
radicalism (Islamic)
Shaykh Ramiyya
Rashidiyya
Red Sea
reforms and reformers
Renamo
renewal (mujaddidun)
revivalism
ribats
Risala, of Ibn Abi Zayd
Rwanda
Saʿdids
Sag(h)anogo
Sahara
trans-Saharan trade
Sahel
Saifawa dynasty
Salihiyya
Salim Suwari
Suwarian position
Sammaniyya
Samori Touré (Ture)
Sanhaja
Sankore (mosque and scholars)
al-Sanusi, Muhammad ibn ʿAli
Sanusiyya
Sawakin
Segeju
Segu
Seku Alrmadu
Senegal
Senegal River
Senegambia
Senghor, Léopold S.
Shadhiliyya
Shah Ghulum Muuad Soofie Siddiqui
Shanga
shariʿa. See also law
sharif/shurafaʾ. See also Alawids and Jamal al-Layl
Sharr Baba
Shatariyya
Sheku Ahmadu. See Seku Ahmadu
Shewa
al-Shifa … al-Mustafo of Iyad b. Musa al-Sabti
Shiʿi(s). See also Fatimids
Ismaʿilis
Shirazi
Shona
Sidi Yahya
Shaykh Sidiya
silsila
Sinnar
slaves and slave trade
Sofala
Sokna Magat Diop
Sokota
Somalia
Somali language and literature
Somalis
Songhay kingdom
Soninke. See also Maraka
Sonni ʿAli
sorcerers
South Africa
spirit possession
Sudan (nation of)
Sudan (Nilotic), Chapter 5
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army
Sudanese
sufis and sufism, chap. 20. See also tariqas
Suhrawardiyya
Sulayman b. ʿAbdallah Bagavogo
Sulayman Bal
Suna
Sunjata
Sunni Islam and Sunnis
Suwarian tradition. See Salim Suwari
al-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din
Swahili
Swahili civilization and culture
Swahili language and literature
Tabara
Tafiir al-Jalalayn
Takcdda
Takrur
Shaykh Talha
Tanga
Tanganyika/Tanzania
tariqas. See also names of individual tariqas
Tayib Saleh
al-Tijani, Ahmad
Tijaniyya
Timbuktu
Tippu Tip
Tokolor
Torodbe/Toronkawa
Touré, Sékou
Tuareg
Ibn Tuman, Abdallah
Tunisia
twaliki-sukuti controversy
Uganda
Ujiji
ʿulamaʾ (scholars)
karamoko
mallamati
ʿUmar Hasan al-Bashir
ʿUmar ibn Muhammad Aqit
ʿUmar Tal (al-Hajj)
ʿUthman dan Fodio
Uways Muhammad Muhyi al-Din
Wa
Wadai
Wagadugu
Wahhabis and Wahhabism
Walashma dynasty
Walata
Walo
Wangara/Wangarawa
waqf
War Dabi
Warsha
Watara, Shehu
Watawit
Welo
White Flag League
Wolof
women. See also education
women’s associations
women’s dress
women’s status
Yahya al-Tadilsi
Yaji
Yaʿmuru Tarawiri
Yan Izala
Yao
Yashrutiyya
Yatenga
Yemen
Yifat
Yoruba
Yorubaland
Shaykh Yusuf
Yusuf Kasama
Zagha
Zaghawa
Zambia
Zanj
Zanzibar
Zanzibar Sultanate. See also Busaidi
Zaria
zawiyalzawayalzwaya. See also marabouts and ribats
Zayla/Zeila
Zimbabwe. See also Shona
Znaga
al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur