MAMADOU DIOUF is Professor of History and of AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. MARA A. LEICHTMAN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Muslim Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

"Researchers launching projects on Islam in Senegal will find this volume an invaluable introduction to the topic. The eleven essays ... enrich our understandings of Muslim communities in Senegal and offer nuanced views of local engagement with Islamic beliefs and practices." - John H. Hanson, Indiana University

• Introduction; M.Diouf & M.A.Leichtman PART I: THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PEDAGOGY OF ISLAM The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques; C.Cantone The Longue Durée of Qur'anic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia; R.T.Ware PART II: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND SEXUALITY Migration, Marriage, and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance; A.Drame Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority, and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya; B.A.Buggenhagen Jambaar or Jumbax-out?: How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity; E.Augis PART III: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam; J.F.Searing The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Brotherhoods; M.A.Leichtman Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at ; M.Janson PART IV: MODERNITY, POLITICS,AND DIALECTICS Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization; J.W.Glover Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements; F.Samson-Ndaw Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal; R.Loimeier