The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale.
Nehemia Levtzion was a director with the Council for Higher Education in Israel and was a professor of history at the Hebrew University. Randall L. Pouwels is a professor of African history at the University of Central Arkansas.
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