Roman Loimeier is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes on Muslim societies in Africa and has done extensive fieldwork in Senegal, northern Nigeria and Tanzania as well as shorter research trips to South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco since the early 1980s. He is particularly interested in the history of Islamic reform and the social, religious and political implications of reform.

A result of three decades of fieldwork and travels throughout Africa, [this book] boasts an extensive bibliography and index, and will probably come to be regarded as a reference book for understanding Sufi- and Salafi-oriented and jihad-minded reform movements in the multi-ethnic and multireligious societies of the African continent.

• Glossary of Arabic Terms viForeword xiiA Note on Islamic Transnational Organisations xvii1 Introduction: The Context of Reform 12 What is Reform? 173 Reform in Context I: Senegal (and Mali) 644 Reform in Context II: Northern Nigeria (and Niger) 1455 Reform in Context III: Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia 2216 Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya) 3177 Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros) 3808 Conclusion: The Meaning of Islamic Reform 457Bibliography 473Index 000

Roman Loimeier is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes on Muslim societies in Africa and has done extensive fieldwork in Senegal, northern Nigeria and Tanzania as well as shorter research trips to South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco since the early 1980s. He is particularly interested in the history of Islamic reform and the social, religious and political implications of reform.

A result of three decades of fieldwork and travels throughout Africa, [this book] boasts an extensive bibliography and index, and will probably come to be regarded as a reference book for understanding Sufi- and Salafi-oriented and jihad-minded reform movements in the multi-ethnic and multireligious societies of the African continent.

• Glossary of Arabic Terms viForeword xiiA Note on Islamic Transnational Organisations xvii1 Introduction: The Context of Reform 12 What is Reform? 173 Reform in Context I: Senegal (and Mali) 644 Reform in Context II: Northern Nigeria (and Niger) 1455 Reform in Context III: Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia 2216 Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya) 3177 Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros) 3808 Conclusion: The Meaning of Islamic Reform 457Bibliography 473Index 000

Roman Loimeier is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes on Muslim societies in Africa and has done extensive fieldwork in Senegal, northern Nigeria and Tanzania as well as shorter research trips to South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco since the early 1980s. He is particularly interested in the history of Islamic reform and the social, religious and political implications of reform.

A result of three decades of fieldwork and travels throughout Africa, [this book] boasts an extensive bibliography and index, and will probably come to be regarded as a reference book for understanding Sufi- and Salafi-oriented and jihad-minded reform movements in the multi-ethnic and multireligious societies of the African continent.

• Glossary of Arabic Terms viForeword xiiA Note on Islamic Transnational Organisations xvii1 Introduction: The Context of Reform 12 What is Reform? 173 Reform in Context I: Senegal (and Mali) 644 Reform in Context II: Northern Nigeria (and Niger) 1455 Reform in Context III: Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia 2216 Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya) 3177 Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros) 3808 Conclusion: The Meaning of Islamic Reform 457Bibliography 473Index 000