The Marabout & the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Jihad, Ijtihad, and Other Dialogical Wars in La Mere du printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine	1
2	Dismantling the Maghreb: Moroccan Writers and Islamic Culture	23
3	Women's Words: Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine	40
4	Daughters of Hagar: Daughters of Muhammad	51
5	The Re-Racination of Driss Chraibi: a Hajj in Search of a New Mecca	62
6	Piloting Through Turbulence: Griots, Islam, and the French Encounter in Four Epics About Nineteenth Century West African Heroes	77
7	Islamic Inscriptions and Motifs and Arab Genealogies in the Epic Tale of the Kingdom of Waalo (Njaajaan Njaay)	92
8	The Fusion of Sufi and Nomad Thought in the Poetry of Hawad, Tuareg Mystic	103
9	Muslim Perceptions in a Swahili Oral Genre	116
10	Sittaat: Somali Women's Songs for the "Mother of the Believers"	124
11	Women's Islamic Literature in Northern Nigeria: 150 Years of Tradition	142
12	Islamic Influences on Oral Traditions in Hausa Literature	159
13	The Quest for Orthodoxy in The Last Imam of Ibrahim Tahir	176
14	The View From a Mosque of Words: Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame and The Holy Qur'an	191
15	Mapping Islam in Farah's Maps	205
	Glossary	219
	References	225
	Index	233