The marabout and the muse : new approaches to Islam in African literature / edited by Kenneth W. Harrow.

Introduction / Kenneth W. Harrow
Jihad, ijtihad, and other dialogical wars in La Mere du printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine / George Lang
Dismantling the Maghreb : Moroccan writers and Islamic culture / Christopher Gibbins
Women's words : Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine / Patricia Geesey
Daughters of Hagar : daughters of Muhammad / Sonia Lee
The re-racination of Driss Chraibi: a hajj in search of a new Mecca / John Hawley
Piloting through turbulence : griots, Islam, and the French encounter in four epics about nineteenth century West African heroes / Brett C. Bowles and Thomas Hale
Islamic inscriptions and motifs and Arab genealogies in the epic tale of the Kingdom of Waalo (Njaajaan Njaay) / Samba Diop
The fusion of Sufi and nomad thought in the poetry of Hawad, Tuareg mystic / Debra Boyd-Buggs
Muslim perceptions in a Swahili oral genre / Farouk Topan
Sittaat : Somali women's songs for the "Mother of the Believers" / Lidwien Kapteijns and Mariam Omar Ali
Women's Islamic literature in northern Nigeria : 150 years of tradition / Jean Boyd and Beverly Mack
Islamic influences on otal traditions in Hausa literature / Patricia Starratt
The quest for orthodoxy in The Last Imam of Ibrahim Tahir / Ahmed Sheikh Bangura
The view from a mosque of words : Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame and The Holy Qur'an / Maggi Philips
Mapping Islam in Farah's maps / Alamin Mazrui.