This handbook argues that the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. An important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology.

Terje Østebø is Chair of the Department of Religion and Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, USA. He has joint appointments in the Department of Religion and the Center for African Studies and is also Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Florida.

1. Introduction Part I: Formation of Islam in Africa: Islamic Scholarship, Literature, and Sufism 2. The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions 3. An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa 4. Pathways and Formations of 'African Sufism' Part II: Dynamics of Religious Infrastructure 5. A Historiography of Sub-Saharan African Mosques 6. Sufi Shrines as Material Space 7. The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education Part III: Islam and African Intersections 8. Muslim Christian Relations in Africa 9. Islam and the Question of Gender Part IV: Islam, Politics, and Reform 10. Islam and Politics in Africa 11. Jihadism in Africa 12. African Salafism Part V: Patterns of Islamic Reform in Africa 13. Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa 14. Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth and Twenty-first Africa 15. Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects Part VI: Everyday Muslim Life 16. People's Quest for Well-Being 17. Islam, Muslim Life-worlds, and Matters of the Everyday 18. Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam Part VII: New Technologies and New Connectiveness 19. Popular Culture in Muslim Africa 20. Media, the Digital, and New Connections 21. Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label