Roman Loimeier is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Goettingen. 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.
"The book is a comprehensive comparative depiction of Islamic
reform movements in Africa in historical perspective. Loimeier
compellingly demonstrates the complexity and diversity of these
movements, subtly analysing the dialectical interaction of
international currents and local contexts. This is a tour de force,
remarkable for both its breadth and depth." -- Robert Launay,
Northwestern University
"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."-- Heinrich Bergstresser, Africa Spectrum
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