Islam in Africa and the Middle East : studies on conversion and renewal / Nehemia Levtzion ; edited by Michel Abitbol and Amos Nadan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a comparative study of Islamization -- Conversion under Muslim domination : a comparative study -- Conversion to Islam in Syria and Palestine, and the survival of Christian communities -- Aspects of Islamization : Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered -- Islam in the Bil�ad al-S�ud�an to 1800 -- Arab geographers, the Nile, and the history of Bil�ad al-S�ud�an -- Islam in African and global contexts : adventures in comparative studies of Islam -- The Almoravids in the Sahara and Bil�ad al-S�ud�an : a study in Arab historiography -- Slavery and slave trade in the early states of Bil�ad al-S�ud�an -- Religious reform in eighteenth-century Morocco (with Gideon Weigert) -- Eighteenth century Sufi brotherhoods : structural, organisational and ritual changes -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century (with Gideon Weigert) -- The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods -- Resurgent Islamic fundamentalism as an integrative factor in the politics of Africa and the Middle East -- The role of Shar�i�a-oriented Sufi �Turuq in the renewal and reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.