SPECIAL ISSUE
Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered:
Critical and Historical Perspectives
Ralph A. Austen and Benjamin Soares, Guest Editors
Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered: Critical and Historical Perspectives 133
Bintou Sanankoua
Amadou Hampâté Bâ: A Testimony 143
Louis Brenner
A Living Library: Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the Oral Transmission of Islamic Religious Knowledge 167
Ralph A. Austen
The Medium of “Tradition”: Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Confrontations with Languages, Literacy, and Colonialism 217
Anna Pondopoulo
Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the Writer Robert Arnaud (Randau): African Colonial Service and Literature 229
SOURCES
Muhammed Haron Organisation of the Islamic Conference’s Second Conference of Muslim Communities and Minorities in Africa (May 23–25, 2007) 249
Liazzat J. K. Bonate Documents in Arabic Script at the Mozambique Historical Archives 153
BOOK REVIEWS
Victoria Bernal
Karin Willemse, One Foot in Heaven: Narratives on Gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan 259
Charles C. Stewart
Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa 261
Justine Howe
Abdullahi Gallab, The First Islamist Republic: Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan 263
Karen Smid
Ramon Sarró, The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone 266
