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• Africa Focus--Sights and Sounds of a Continent: Images of Religion  (University of Wisconsin--Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Madison, Wisconsin)
  
• African Association for the Study of Religions (via University of Leeds, UK)
  The site includes information about conferences and members' activities. "The AASR was founded at an International Association for the History of Religions Regional Conference at the University of Zimbabwe at Harare, Zimbabwe, in September 1992. And since it was formally admitted as an IAHR affiliate in the XVIIth IAHR World Con­gress in Mexico City in 1995..."
  -- AASR Bulletin, 1963 to present online
  -- 8th AASR Conference in Africa--"Revisiting Religion, Politics, and the State in Africa and the African Diaspora," August 1-4, 2018, The University of Zambia and Justo Mwale University, Lusaka, Zambia
  -- Final programme of 2007 AASR Conference, July 8-13, 2007, University of Botswana, Gaborone
• African studies quarterly. (Online): "Religion and philosophy in Africa" (1998) Vol. 1, issue 4. -- Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida, Center for African Studies.
  -- See also the ASQ archive for "religion" (1997 to present)
  
• AllAfrica.Com News on Religion in Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  Current and recent news in brief on Africa in English or French from African newspapers and journals, the Pan African News Agency (PANA), UN news services, and non-African sources. Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
• CSIS--Center for Strategic and International Studies: Religious Authority and the State in Africa (October 2015)  Ed. by Jennifer Cooke and Richard Downie. -- Washington, DC: CSIS, 2015. With chapters on Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda; 126 pages in PDF format.
  
• Leiden University, African Studies Centre: "Religion" in Kenya Coast Bibliography By Jan Hoorweg (2000) --via AfricaBib.org (The Netherlands)
  Part of the larger Kenya Coast Bibliography...search results for Religion.
• Lamin Sanneh, 1942-2019
  • Christianity Today. (Carol Stream, Illinois): "Remembering Lamin Sanneh, the World's Leading Expert on Christianity and Islam in Africa," January 8, 2019.
  • Eerdmans Publishing/YouTube.com: "Interview with Lamin Sanneh. (January 22, 2013)
    
  • Yale University, Divinity School: Professor Lamin Sanneh, 1942-2019 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
• Pew Research Center: "Sub-Saharan Africa will be home to growing shares of the world's Christians and Muslims," April 19, 2017. By David McClendon. (Washington, DC)
  
• United States. Department of State.  (Washington, DC)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports--Search by country: 1999-2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
  • Investment Climate Statements (2018) : Search by country
    
• United States Institute of Peace: Religion and Peacemaking (All Regions) (Washington, DC)
  See especially: Publications

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• Afriquespoir. (Online) -- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Afriquespoir, 1998--
  Une publication trimestrielle Catholique qui offre les actualités d'évangélisation, des témoignages missionaires, et une opportunité pour un échange entre églises. Les archives contient les vieux numéros depuis 1998.
• Agenzia Fides: News on Roman Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Letters, and Missions in Africa: Search By Country. (Congregazione per l'Evangelizzazione dei Popoli, Vatican City, Rome, Italy)
  
• Além mar: visão missionária. (Online) -- Lisbon, Portugal: Missionários Combonianos do Coração de Jesus, 1997-
  This is the electronic version of a monthly magazine in Portuguese produced by the Comboni Missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church to disseminate religious news and information about the work of the missions in Africa and elsewhere. There is also a section “especial” with brief religious profiles for countries in Africa, Américas, and Asia. Plus, links to other online Catholic missionary magazines.
• All Africa Conference of Churches = Conférence des Eglises de toute l'Afrique (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The official website of this international "ecumenical" Christian organization, with membership in 39 African countries.
  • "Peace and Reconciliation in Africa: A Preliminary Survey of Ecumenical Perspectives and Initiatives" by Harold F. Miller (1993). Mennonite Central Committee occasional paper; 19. (Akron, Pennsylvania)
    A research paper about the AACC's conflict resolution activities in the 1980s and early 1990s. See also: Occasional Papers Series by MCC authors.
• Anglicans Online: Africa Directory and Links (Society of Archbishop Justus, UK)
  
• BBC World Service: The Story of Africa--Christianity (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  The web site which accompanied a radio broadcast series on African history, featuring very short historical summaries in English, with audio clips and a short bibliography.
• Billy Graham Center Archives (Wheaton College, Illinois)
  This archive contains collections mainly from North American Protestant missionaries and some African churches and organizations. Most records cover the 20th century and concern eastern or central Africa. See also, search tips for Africa-related material.
• Boston University School of Theology: Center for Global Christianity and Mission (Boston, Massachusetts)
  The center web site features short bibliographies and information about several Africa-related programs under the leadership of Dana L. Robert and Martinus L. Daneel--especially for Zimbabwe: African Initiatives in Christian Mission, Research on Indigenous Religions in Zimbabwe, and Preservation Project for African Initiated Churches Zimbabwe Archive.
• Catholic University of Eastern Africa--Hekima University College: Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
• The Center for Early African Christianity, 2011-2018 (New Haven, Connecticut)
  "...to resource African Christians as they rethink their own agenda using classic African sources. We want to partner with Africa Christian leaders collecting seeds from their past in order to plant a future that provides possible solutions to questions, pressures, challenges Africa faces today and will face tomorrow on the soil of Africa."
  --See especially: Publications -and- Research and Resources
• Christian Churches -- Net Ministries: Directory: Search By Country (The Colony, Texas)
  
• Coptic Orthodox Church Network (Jersey City, New Jersey)
  
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography (Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut)
  The site provides information on the project itself and the online dictionary with entries in English, French, and Kiswahili. "The DACB is a multilingual electronic database containing biographies of African Christian leaders, evangelists, and lay workers. Biographies are of those persons chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Christian communities in Africa."
• Ethiopian Christianity
  • "A Bibliography of Christianity in Ethiopia," by John Abbink -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2003. 102 pp. PDF format
    
  • ”Ethiopian Icons: Faith and Science” Exhibition, January 31 - October 3, 2003 (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC)
    The website includes images of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian icons (and processional crosses) from the 17th to the 19th centuries; plus a short bibliography.
  • The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Faith and Order (United Kingdom)
    An official web site of the church outside of Ethiopia--in Amharic, English, French, and German, with sacred and historical texts, audio files, illustrations excerpted from books, photographs, and links to videos.
  • Inventaire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits éthiopiens (janvier 2008). Par Anaïs Wion, Marie-Laure Derat et Claire Bosc-Tiessé. (Ménestrel--medievistes sur l'internet, sources, travaux, references en ligne, informations sur les collections au tour du monde, via Paris, France)en format PDF
    
  • Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)
    "PEMM, a digital humanities project, is a comprehensive resource for the 1,000+ miracle stories and the 2,500+ images painted of the Virgin Mary in these African countries, and preserved in Geʿez between 1300 and the present......You can also learn about over 950 Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts, from over 100 repositories around the world...with access to 'digital copies'...Drawing on manuscripts from the exceptional collection of Täˀammərä Maryam in Princeton’s Rare Books and Special Collections, PEMM collects information about these miracle tales to enable better scholarship on their contents across regions, languages, and time."
• Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
  [Launched in March 1999] "FECCLAHA...is a regional ecumenical organization seeking to provide a platform for sharing perspectives on issues of common concern, particularly regarding peace building and conflict transformation in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa region."
  --See especially: FECCLAHA Reports
• Kimbanguism: an African understanding of the Bible. By Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot ; translated by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko. -- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017] --via DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books.
  
• Kimbanguisme.net (France)
  Un site de la diaspora congolaise et du mouvement indépendantiste développé au sein du Christianisme par Simon Kimbangu et ses fidèles au Congo depuis 1921.
• University of Malawi, Department of Theology and Religious Studies: Kachere Series Publishing (Zomba, Malawi)
  The site features the publisher's lists of books on Christianity and African "traditional" religion which are available through African Books Collective (Oxford, UK).
• Maryknoll Institute of African Studies: St. Mary's University of Minnesota and Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya. (Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers--Africa Region, via USA)
  
• Mozambique -- Igrejas em Moçambique: uma colecção de links (2002) Moçambique On-Line (Wim Neeleman, Maputo, Mozambique)
  "Esta página foi feita em colaboração com Eric Morier-Genoud e tem contribuições de Obede Baloi."
• MUNDUS: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
  A searchable directory and catalogue of archival holdings on missionary societies and missionaries in the UK. The site includes a collection of sample historic photographs and links to related sites. See especially: the clickable map of Africa.
• Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "AIC's are indigenous African churches, founded originally during the colonial period, as an assertion that God speaks directly to Africans without requiring the mediation of outsiders. They developed indigenous forms of worship, theology, and social organization, rooted in African culture. Members of AICs number about 60 million across the continent at the present time."
• Tanzania -- Jordan University College Salvatorian Institute of Philosophy and Theology (Morogoro, Tanzania)
  A constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza: the official web site of the Roman Catholic seminary college in Tanzania affiliated with the Philosophy Faculty of the Pontifical Urbaniana University of Rome, Italy.
• United Methodist Church--Global Ministries: Africa (New York)
• University of South Africa: Research Institute for Theology and Religion--Publications UNISA Institutional Repository (Pretoria, South Africa)

• África and Islam -- Biblioteca Virtual (oozebap.org, Barcelona, Spain)
  Selected online books, journals, and links on information about Africa and Islamic societies.
• Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation: Al-Furqan E-Database -- World Collections List (London, UK)
  
• Al Jazeera: "Muslims in America: A Forgotten History." February 10, 2021. By Sylvianne Diouf. (Doha)
  
• ARIA: Annual review of Islam in Africa. – Cape Town: Centre for Contemporary Islam, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, 1998-2012.
  Formerly ARISA: Annual review of Islam in South Africa (1998-2005). The archive collection of this open access UCT journal, along with information about a subscription-based publication: Journal of Islamic Studies.
  --See also: Muslim marriages in South Africa Workshop, May 2010 -and- Kadhi's Court in Kenya Workshop, March 2010
• "Arabic Script Manuscripts in Africa," 12-16 September 2021, Remotely over Zoom, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (Co-sponsored by The Islamic Manuscripts Association, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation)
  This site --available in Arabic, English, and French-- includes the full programme -and- video recordings, with English interpretation, of all the presentations!
• Art & Life in Africa: "Islam and Islamic Arts in Africa" By Dr. Allen F. Roberts (2012) (University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa) --via The Internet Archive
  
• BBC World Service: The Story of Africa--Islam (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  The web site which accompanied a radio broadcast series on African history, featuring very short historical summaries in English, with audio clips and a short bibliography.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France: Inventaire de la bibliothèque Umarienne de Ségou (1985) by Noureddin Ghali, avec le participation de Louis Brenner, David Robinson, Jean-Louis Triaud. 342 pages
  (via Gallica--Bibliothèque numérique, Paris, France)
  --See also: "Manuscrits Arabes du Fonds Archinard," microfilm copy at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
• The British Library, Endangered Archives Programme (London)
  • "Major Project to Digitise and Preserve the Manuscripts of Djenné" (2011-2013) -and- Archival Records from Djenné and Surrounding Villages (2013-2015)
    These web pages explain the two projects and provides open access to the completed digital archive, consisting of 2,303 items in the first phase and 3,303 in the second phase.
  • Manuscripts of the Riyadh Mosque of Lamu, Kenya
    "This collection of approximately 130 manuscripts holds several unique copies and represents Islamic education in East Africa for the past few hundred years, with the manuscripts dating from 1837 to 1920."
  • Preseving Pius Print: Maalim Muhammad Idris Collection, Zanzibar, Tanzania
    
    Approximately 300 Islamic items dating from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.
  • Safeguarding the Ethiopian Islamic Heritage: Muhammed Dawud's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts from Kemisse [c 11th century-21st century]
    The project identified six abandoned mosques in the towns of Cheno, Dera and in South Wallo, and 21 manuscripts were listed. Ten manuscripts have been digitised."
  • Safeguarding Fulfulde ajami manuscripts of Nigerian Jihad poetry by Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) and contemporaries
    "The aim of this project is the digitisation of 93 manuscripts of Fulfulde jihad poetry (approximately 600 pages) by various authors, which are owned by a private collector in 'Yola (Nigeria). The bulk consists of 43 poems by Usman dan Fodio and 26 poems by his daughter Nana Asma'u."
• Islam Burkina Faso Collection, 2021-. George Smathers Libraries. (Frédérick Madore ...[et al.], University of Florida, Gainesville)
  In English or French..."an open-access digital database containing archival materials, newspaper articles, Islamic publications and photographs related to Islam in Burkina Faso...The database, now containing more than 2,500 items, will have about 3,000 in the future. The site also offers more than 200 bibliographical references on Islam in Burkina Faso."
• CSIS--Center for Strategic & International Studies: "Islam in Africa: Trends and Policy Implications," March 25, 2013  (Washington, DC)  42 page presentation in PDF format...from a four-hour conference (Washington, DC)
  
• Columbia University -- Major Events on Islam in Africa
  
  • Past Events on Islam in Africa
    
    • Tierno Bokar (Sufi sage in Mali) -- U.S. Premiere, March 30 - April 26, 2005, Barnard College, Columbia University
      --Includes guide with interviews and other classroom resources.
• Governance and Islam in East Africa: Muslims and the State. (2024) Edited by Farouk Topan , Kai Kresse , Erin E. Stiles and Hassan Mwakimako. -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. --via DeGruyter.com (Open Access); 333 pages in PDF format.
  
• East African Muslims after 9/11. by Rüdiger Seesemann (2005) Bayreuth African Studies working papers;
  no. 3. (July 2005) -- Bayreuth, Germany: Universität Bayreuth, 2005.
  
• "Muslims in Eastern Africa--Their Past and Present," by Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi (1994). Nordic journal of African studies. (Online); vol. 3, no. 1. (Helsinki, Finland) 10 pages in PDF format
  See the home page to search the archive for more short articles on Islam in Africa.
• L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales--Conférences publiques, 2017-2018: "Afriques: sociétés en mouvement, du 3 octobre au 5 juin 2018. Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman. (Paris, France)  Fichiers audios
  
  
• Emory University, School of Law: Future of Shari'a Blog  By Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. (Atlanta, Georgia)
  "To advance the rationale of scholarship for social change, this blog is devoted to critical examination of the relationship of Islam and the state, as well as the relationship of Sharia and the state. This blog is also concerned with developing practical strategies for the protection of human rights and promotion of democratization in Islamic societies today."
• George Mason University, AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies: Black American Muslim Internationalism Project (Fairfax, Virginia)
  "The project works in collaboration with leading university-based scholars, a network of community-based historians, imams, community members, artists of all kinds in three cities (the Washington DC area DMV, Philadelphia, and Atlanta) to develop a multi-tiered research and programming initiative that can influence academic and public narratives around religion, race, and identity while also filling current gaps in the scholarly record."
• Harvard University: "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa," Harvard University, 16-18 February 2017--Keynote ; Panel 1 ; Panel 2 ; Panel 3 -and- Panel 4 -- via YouTube (Center for African Studies and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Harvard University Divinity School, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Islamic history and culture, 2014-2023 events  -- via YouTube.com
    
  • Kane, Ousmane Oumar. "From a Neglected to a Crowded Field--The Academic Study of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa." (2022) Religions 2022, volume 13 ; via MDPI.com
  • "Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds." Special issue of Religions. (2021) --via MDPI.com
    Eight published papers from a 2019 conference.
    
  • "From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say : Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective," by Prof. Ousmane Kane (March 2014) --via Harvard Divinity School on YouTube.com
    
• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: Islamic Manuscripts (includes Mali and Ethiopia) (Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota)
  "HMML has partnered with SAVAMA-DCI in Bamako, Mali, to digitize the manuscripts evacuated from Timbuktu in 2012. These include the Abdelbakr Bin Said Library (7600 items), Abdullah Abdrahamane Library (12,700 items; project currently underway); Attaher Muaz Library (39,000 items); Mamma Haidara Library (37,500 items). New work with collections that remained in Timbuktu has begun with the Imam Ben Essayuti Library in a project co-sponsored by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. The Sherif Harar City Museum contains hundreds of manuscripts gathered from families and shrines in the historic center of Islam in Ethiopia. Abdullahi Ali Sherif, founder of the museum, has deposited digital copies of manuscripts at HMML."
• Islam in Africa (2024) An online bibliography by Paul Schrijver. Library, Documentation, and Information Department, Afrikastudiecentrum=African Studies Centre, Leiden University. (The Netherlands) -- via AfricaBib.Org
  
  • See also: Women in Muslim Africa -- Web Dossier (2023). Produced for a workshop at Leiden University on "Global and Local Political Debates over Women's Rights, and Everyday Life in Muslim Africa." September 21-22, 2023.
    
  • See also: Muslim Scholars in Africa -- Web Dossier (2015) Produced for a workshop at Leiden University on "Muslim Scholars in Africa." April 23, 2015.
    
  • Plus: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Web Dossier (2005). Produced for a Conference on "Islam, Disengagement of the State, and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa" held at UNESCO in Paris on 12-13 May 2005.
• IslHornAfr: Islam in the Horn of Africa, A Comparative Literary Approach (Prof. Alessandro Gori and others, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  "...with the aim of producing a critical and comprehensive picture of the Islamic literary history of the Horn of Africa. The project has been funded by the European Research Council."
  --See especially: Beta Version of the Database: "...allows the users to make a general search in both Arabic and Latin script. Results will be displayed according to the three main entities of the database: Texts, People and Manuscripts."
• Institut du monde arabe: "Trésors de l'Islam en Afrique: de Tomboctou à Zanzibar," du 14 avril au 30 juillet 2017 (Paris, France)
  --Veuillez voir aussi: un court métrage (via France24.com)
• Islam -- General Resources (Compiled by Middle East & North African Studies Librarian, Columbia University)
  
• The Islamic World to 1600 (Created by Erica Fraser and the Applied History Research Group, University of Calgary, Canada)
  A web site featuring brief historical summaries, with a section on "The Fractured Caliphate and the Regional Dynasties" which includes "Spain & The Maghrib", "Egypt", and "West Africa."
• Kane, Ousmane. Non-Europhone Intellectuels (2012). [Translation of: Intellectuels non-europhones. 2003]
  -- Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2012. (Format PDF)
  
• Islam in Kenya and Tanzania
  
  • The Islamic Foundation Kenya (Nairobi)
  • Muslims for Human Rights (Mombasa, Kenya) Since 1997
  • Northwestern University
    • Program of African Studies: "Muslim relations in the politics of nationalism and secession in Kenya." (2010) by Hassan Ndzovu PAS working paper ; no. 18 ; 16 pages in PDF format
    • Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa: "Muslims and party politics and electoral campaigns in Kenya," (2009) by Hassan Ndzovu Working paper (Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies); no. 09-001 ; 14 pages in PDF format
  • Qurani Takatifu : Swahili Quran Translation (with Introduction). By Sheikh Abdullah Saleh al-Farsy. (Translated c1967) 5th ed. -- Nairobi, Kenya: The Islamic Foundation, [1987] --via The Internet Archive
    
  • Qur'ani Tukufu - Swahili Translation of The Holy Qur'an By Sheikh Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani (1997) --via International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    
  • SUPKEM--Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Nairobi, Kenya)
    • SUPKEM Home Page (2018)
      
    • SUPKEM--Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims--Facebook (2019-)
    • "Islamic leadership in Kenya: a case study of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims." (2014) Ph.D. thesis, by Hassan Kinyua Omari (University of Nairobi Digital Repository, Nairobi, Kenya) 228 pages in PDF format.
  • University of Cape Town, Centre for Contemporary Islam: Kadhi's Court in Kenya Workshop, March 2010
    Held in Limuru, Kenya
  • University of Oxford--Podcast: "Encountering Islam in Eastern African: Transnational History and Imperialism, c. 1880-1930," Lecture by Prof. David Anderson (February 2011) (Oxford, UK) Audio file, about 53 minutes
• Layene Brotherhood of Senegal -- La Communauté Layène
  The official site –in French, Arabic, English, Spanish, and Italian--of the Layene Brotherhood, an Islamic sect founded by Seydina Limamou Laye (1843-1909) who declared himself the Mahdi. The site includes a biography and geneology of the founder, important religious events, and other information about the movement.
• The Library of Congress: Islamic Manuscripts from Timbuktu, Mali (Washington, DC)
  This site provides information about and sample pages from 32 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye in Timbuktu. See especially: About the Collection --and-- ”Timbuktu—an Islamic Cultural Center.
• Map of "Islam in Africa" (1987) JPEG format (Perry Castañeda Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
  
• "Mauritania's Manuscripts" (2005) by Louis Werner; photographs by Lorraine Chittock Originally published in Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2003. (Houston, Texas)
  
• Sufism in Morocco: Dar-Sirr (2013) (El Hassane Debbarh, Fez, Morocco; via archive.today)
  A self-styled "portal" of information on Sufism in Morocco--especially Tijanism, which offers historical, biographical, and theological summaries in English...based on established Islamic sources andVincent J. Cornell's 1998 book, Realm of the saint: power and authority in Moroccan Sufism; with some useful links to other web sites and online Islamic texts.
• The Murid Sufi Brotherhood -- La Mouridiyya et Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (1854-1927)
  • African Ajami Library: Wolofal Manuscripts from Senegal (Boston University Libraries, Boston, Massachusetts)
    "...The manuscripts primarily consist of Wolofal (Wolof Ajami) materials written by the members of the Muridiyya Sufi order founded in Senegal in 1883 by Ahmadou Bamba (ca 1853-1927) and include satirical, polemical, and protest poetry, as well as biographies, eulogies, genealogies, talismanic resources, therapeutic medical manuals, historical records, instructions on codes of conduct, a translation (with commentaries) of the Qur'an in Wolof Ajami script, and two volumes of the internal biography of Ahmadou Bamba written in Wolof Ajami, among others."
  • Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (2001-2002) (Touba-Internet, France)
    Une entrée biographique du fondateur de la confrérie et celles de ses sucusseurs, avec quelques oeuvres litteraires choisies, et des autres pertinentes informations.
  • Daara Khidmatul Khadim, Raleigh, North Carolina
    
  • Les Grands Magals et Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (Touba-Internet, France)
    Les informations et les reportages sur les grands magals à Touba; en plus d’une entrée biographique du fondateur de la confrérie et celles de ses sucusseurs, avec quelques oeuvres litteraires choisies, et des autres pertinentes informations.
  • Hizbut Tarqiyyah -- Khâdimu-R-Rasûl: Le Serviteur Privilégé du Prophète (Paix et Salut sur Lui) (Touba, Sénégal)
    • Le site de Hizbut-Tarqiyyah Siège et du Centre Culturel à Touba.
    • Aperçu sur sa vie et son oeuvre -- Le Serviteur Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba
  • MICA--Murid Islamic Community in America (New York)
    General information--biographical and cultural, announcements and events--including the annual visit of Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke; plus related links.
  • Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles)
    
  • Toubamajalis.com: toutes les actualités du Touba et les écrits du Cheikh (Touba, Sénégal)
    
  • ToubaVision (Touba, Sénégal)
    Un site d'actualités, des entretiens, et des vidéos.
  • For more information on the "Mourides", see also, Passport to Paradise below.

 

• "Muslim Scholars in Africa" -- Web Dossier and Bibliography (April 2015) Library, Documentation, and Information Department, Afrikastudiecentrum=African Studies Centre, Leiden University. (The Netherlands)
• National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Smithsonian Institution: "African Muslims in Early America" Collection Stories (Washington, DC)
  
• Université Islamique au Niger (Say, Niger)
  "...affiliée àl'Organisation de Coopération Islamique (O.C.I.), l'université fut créée en 1974."
  --Veuillez voir le site en arabe. Remarquez: la plupart des informations utiles sur l'université est en arabe. Les pages françaises sont en construction.
• Islam in Nigeria
  • Ahmadu Bello University: Arewa House: Centre for Historical Documentation and Research (Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria)
    The web site offers general information about the center, its staff, and the center's archive and library.
    NOTE: The library includes a major Arabic language/Ajami script manuscripts collection.
  • FOMWAN--Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria (Abuja)
    
  • Iqra'ah Publishing House (Gusau, Zamfara State, Nigeria)
    "The project of collecting and typesetting the Arabic manuscripts of the writings of Sheikhs Uthman bin Fodiyo, Abdullahi bin Fodiyo and Sultan Muhammad Bello (May Allah forgive them all) and their translation into Hausa and English and other languages was conceived in 1991, the very year I left teaching History at University of Sokoto, now Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sakkwato."
  • Islam in Nigeria--Web Dossier and Bibliography (2002) (Library, Documentation, and Information Department, Afrikastudiecentrum=African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands)
    
  • The Library of Congress: "The State of Arabic Manuscript Collections in Nigeria" (2007) Report of a Survey Tour to Northern Nigeria, March 3-19, 2007. (Dr. Angel Batiste, Area Specialist, Sub-Saharan Africa; Washington, DC)
    
  • Muslim Heritage: "Arabic Medicinal Manuscripts of Pre-Colonial Northern Nigeria: A Descriptive List." By Mukhtar Umar Bunza. January 2018. (Manchester, UK)
    
  • National Council of Nigerian Muslim Organizations in the USA (Washington, DC)  Founded in 1976
    
  • Nigerian Muslims Network (UK and Nigeria)
    A collection of commentaries and scholarly articles on Islam in Nigerian history and contemporary issues; plus links to online versions of The Qur'an, Hadith and other Islamic texts, as well as other Nigerian Muslim sites.
  • Northwestern University, Program in African Studies: "An Introduction to Islamic Movements and Modes of Thought in Nigeria." by Ibrahim Haruna Hassan, University of Jos. (2015) PAS/ISITA working paper no. 1 (2015) (Evanston, Illinois)
  • Sharia implementation in northern Nigeria 1999-2006: a sourcebook. Compiled and edited by Philip Ostien. -- Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, Ltd ; Bayreuth, Germany: Universität Bayreuth, 2007. 5 volumes in PDF format
  • University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies: Borno and Old Kanembu Islamic Manuscripts (London, UK)
    "...originates from Qur’anic manuscripts photographed by David Bivar in 1950s and donated to the SOAS Library in 2003. The initial collection consisted of four manuscripts represented by 230 folios in photographic and microfilm form, all subsequently digitised in 2005. In 2005-2007, in the course of fieldwork conducted by Dmitry Bondarev and Abba Isa Tijani in northern Nigeria, and in 2009-2013 by Dmitry Bondarev in Nigeria, Niger and the Republic of Chad, the corpus of digitised manuscripts was substantially increased to more than 5,000 folios."
  • ZMO--Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany): "Salafi revolution in West Africa." (2017) By Abdoulaye Sounaye. ZMO working papers, no. 19.
• Northwestern University: Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) (Evanston, Illinois)
  • The web site offers information about the research and teaching activities of the Institute, which include
  • Arabic Manuscripts from West Africa: A Catalog of the Herskovits Library Collection: The Umar Falke Collection, The John Paden Collection, The John Hunwick Collection, and The University of Ghana Collection.
  • See also: "Africa and Islamic revival: historical and contemporary perspectives," by John Hunwick (1996) Originally published by MSANEWS. ("Islam and Islamic Studies Resources," Prof. Alan Godlas, Department of Religion, University of Georgia, Athens)
    
• Oxford University, Department of International Development: Nigeria Research Network Publications (2012-2017) (Oxford, UK)
  NRN's focus was on Islam and politics in northern Nigeria. "The Nigeria Research Network was active at ODID until 2017. It connected European, American, and Nigerian academics with extensive experience with empirical and development-oriented research in northern Nigeria...[and] involved the late Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, David Ehrhardt, and Hannah Hoechner [among others]."
• The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life -- Muslims in Africa
  
  • The World's Muslims in 2013 --and- 2012
  • The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030. (January 2011) -- Washington, DC: The Forum, 2011. 221 pages in PDF format
  • Mapping the Global Muslim Population. (October 2009) -- Washington, DC: The Forum, 2009. 62 pages in PDF format.
• Political Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for a New Research and Diplomatic Agenda. (May 2005) by David Dickson. –Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2005. PDF format
  
• Sankore Institute of African Islamic Studies International--Digital Archive (Shaykh Muhammad Shareef, USA and Nigeria)
  This site offers interpretive historical summaries on Islam in Africa and free downloads of selected works in English translation of the writings of Uthman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi, his son Muhammad Bello, and his daughter Nana Asmau of the Sokoto Caliphate, and several other Islamic intellectuals in West Africa. "....conceived December 15, 1985...as the result of conversations between the present Sultan of Maiurno al-Hajj Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Bello Maiurno ibn Attahiru ibn Ahmad Zuruku ibn Abu Bakr Attiku ibn Shehu Uthman Dan Fodio, our shaykh, Imam Muhammad al-Amin ibn Adam Karagh, Ahmad Abideen Hassan and the founding director Muhammad Shareef...to collect the Arabic and Ajami manuscripts of the Sokoto Caliphate from northern Nigeria and convey them to the town of Maiurno in order to be edited and republished...To date SIIASI has collected 3000 Arabic manuscripts and 123 Ajami manuscripts (Fulbe’, Hausa, Wolof and Mande’). Of these, more than 89 have been translated and published by the institute."
• Islam in Senegal
  
  • Leiden University: "Paths of Islam in Senegal." (1998) By Mamadou Diouf. ISIM newsletter ; no. 1/98 -- Leiden, The Netherlands: International Instutute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, via Leiden University Open Repository.
  • Michigan State University, MATRIX, African Digital Online Library -- Islam in Senegal
    • "Failed Islamic States in Senegambia" By David Robinson. Part of "Pluralism and Adaptation in the Islamic Practice of Senegal & Ghana."
    • "Saint-Louis: Religious Pluralism in the Heart of Senegal" By David Robinson with assistance from Ghislaine Lydon, Kalala Ngalamulume and others. Part of "Diversity of Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa."
    • See also: African Digital Online Library home page
  • Northwestern University: "Why is Militant Islam a Weak Phenomenon in Senegal?" (March 2009) By Andrew Thurston. Working paper (Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University); no 09-005 -- Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, 2009. 17 pages in PDF format
  • UNESCO Bureau régional pour l'éducation en Afrique: Les valeurs culturelles des confreries musulmanes au Sénégal. (décembre 2012) Par Mamadou Mané. --Dakar: UNESCO, 2012. 60 pages en format PDF
  • Université Lille 3: "L'immigration sénégalaise en France, de 1914 à 1993: étude de l'implantation et du rôle des confreries musulmanes sénégalaises." (2004) par Dr. Fatou Gassama. Thèse de doctorat, Université Charles de Gaule--Lille 3, [2004]. (Université Lille 3: La recherche --Thèses en ligne, Lille, France)
  • See also: Murid Sufi Brotherhood -and- the Tijani Sufism of El Hadj Ibrahima Niass (1900-1975) of Senegal
• Sharia Debates in Africa -- Research Project (2011) (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
  The site features information about the project on "Sharia debates and their perception by Christians and Muslims," plus summaries on history and issues for 4 African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania, with bibliographical references.
• Islam in South Africa
  • Centre for Contemporary Islam, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    
  • Islamic Council of South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Islamic Focus (Bukhara Publications and Media, Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
    Since 2003, this site has offered to South Africa's Islamic communities a source of information on religious and social activities, an official newsletter and other publications, etc.
  • Muslim Judicial Council (SA) Established in 1945. (Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Muslim views. (Online) -- Cape Town, South Africa: The Compass NPC, 2019--
    Originally launched in print in September 1986: A monthly news magazine "...to provide information, comment and analysis and to advocate universal values and social justice."
• The Tijani Sufi Brotherhood in Africa -- La Tijaniyya en Afrique
  • African American Islamic Institute (Kaolack, Senegal ; New York, Detroit, and Atlanta, USA)
    An international NGO founded by Cheikh Imam Hassan Cissé (1945-2008), grandson of El Hadj Ibrahima Niasse of Senegal. See also: Noor Ala Noor -- Home Page of the AAII in Detroit, Michigan
  • Dar-Sirr.Com--Portal to Moroccan Sufism (See "Sufism in Morocco" above)
    
  • The Islamic Tijaniya Foundation of America, Inc. (2010) (Washington, DC)
    The site includes information on the Islamic Tijaniyya brotherhood --founded in Morocco in the 18th century—and information about seminars and conferences in the US.
  • Tijani Literature Online (Zakariya Wright, USA)
    An unofficial site with information in English about the order, its doctrines, and biographies of the founder in North Africa and successive Tijani scholars in West Africa. Selected online texts in Arabic and in translation, as well as details about on-going research projects.
    
  • Tidjaniya -- Site officiel de la Voie = Official website of the Tidjaniya Way (Lyon, France)
    Le site officiel de la confrérie, --en français, anglais, et arabe-- avec une essai sur la vie du fondateur, Sidi Ahmed Tidjani (1737/38-1815 CE), un recueil de ses enseignements, une séléction des actualités de l'Afrique du Nord, du Sénégal, et de la France (y compris plusieurs nécrologies des figures importants de la confrérie), et une bibliothèque de vidéos et de photos.
  • El Hadj Ibrahima Niass (1900-1975) of Senegal and La Fayda
    • Checkh Ibrahim Niass--Tafsir en Wolof (Mady Barhama Niass, YouTube.com)  Audio recordings only
      --Veuillez voir aussi: Tafsir de Baye Niass --via The Internet Archive
    • Faydatidianiya: La Creme des Tassawuf (Dakar, Sénégal)
      Un site multi-media sur la Tijaniyya, les disciples, les dahiras, et des autres informations de contact au Sénégal et à travers le monde.
    • MALBN--Le Mouvement and Ligueyal Baye Niass (Dakar et Medina Baye, Senegal)
      -- Biographie de El Hadji Ibrahima Niass (Baye)
      -- "Cheikha Maryama Niass: Une vie entièrement consacrée à la vulgarisation du Coran," le 28 décembre 2020
      -- "Nécrologie- La Faydatidjaniya en deuil: Seyda Mariama Niass Khadimatoul Qurhane n’est plus." le 27 décembre 2020
    • Raabitatou Diwanoul Anrifina--Facebook (Dakar, Senegal)
       
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa" Timeline of Art History (New York)
  A brief historical summary, with a few bibliographical references and related links on the history of Islam and Islamic arts in general.
• Islamic University in Uganda (Mbale, Uganda)
  "...established in 1988 to serve the English-Speaking Sub Saharan Africa. But since then the mission has expanded as the institution has continued to welcome students from across the continent and beyond...with six faculties and four campuses spread across the country."
• Islam West Africa Collection (Dr. Frédérick Madore et. al., Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany)
  "...a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire. Most of the documents are in French, but some are also available in Hausa, Arabic, Dendi, and English. The site also indexes over 800 references to relevant books, book chapters, book reviews, journal articles, dissertations, theses, reports and blog posts."
• West African Arabic Manuscript Project & Database (Prof. Charles C. Stewart and Bruce Stewart Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois ; University of California, Berkeley)
  A catalog of West African Arabic manuscript collections from Kano--Nigeria at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), from Ségou (Mali) at La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), in Boutilimit and Nouakchott--Mauritania, Timbuctu--Mali, and Niamey--Niger. The database is searchable in English or in Arabic.
• "Women in Muslim Africa." Web dossier. (September 2023). African Studies Centre Library, Leiden University. (The Netherlands)

 

 

• Abayudaya Jews of Uganda (Kulani, Inc., New York)
  A collection of articles, videos, and reports by volunteers in Uganda about a community of Africans, originally followers of a Ganda leader of the late 19th and early 20th century, Semei Kakungulu.
• Ethiopian Jews
  • Association of Ethiopian Jews (Jerusalem, Israel)
    This non-profit organization, founded in 1969, advocates for and promotes the "absorption and integration" of Ethiopian immigrants in Israeli society. See also, the main site in Hebrew.
  • North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry A non-profit aid organization since 1982. (New York)
• South African Jews
  • Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. (Cape Town, South Africa)
    
  • South African Board of Jewish Deputies. Amalgamated association of Hebrew congregations and Jewish societies since 1912. (Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa)

• African Philosophy Resources: "Religion, Philosophy, and Africa": Links to Online Texts, Websites, and Related Resources. (Prof. Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, Orlando)
  
• African Traditional Religion and Christianity (Rev. Dr. Chidi Denis Isizoh, Onitsha, Nigeria)
  --Selected Writings by Isizoh on African traditional religion and the Roman Catholic religion
  --"A Bibliography on African Traditional Religion" Part 1.
  African diaspora archaeology newsletter; vol. 6, no. 3 (October 1999)
• ANKH: Egyptologie et Civilisations Africaines -- Bibliographies (Paris, France)
  • "Bibliographie Afrique ancienne: religion, philosophie" (2000)
    
  • "Bibliographie Afrique: religion, philosophie" (1985)
    
  • ANKH Page d'accueil
• Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions. (Online) -- Paris, France: Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales; via Revues.org, 1956--
  This online journal contains full text articles on Afro-Latin American religions. Older issues published before 2000 are available via Persée: portail des revues scientifique en sciences humaines et sociales.
• John Samuel  Mbiti, 1939-2019
  • Africa is a Country: "Reading John Mbiti from Uganda," October 18, 2019. By Derek R. Peterson. (USA)
  • Nation: "Prof. Mbiti, the Anglican cleric who dared to promote African religions," October 11, 2019. (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The New York Times: John Mbiti, 87, Dies; Punctured Myths About African Religions," October 24, 2019. (New York)
  • The Standard: "Prof. Mbiti: The man who translated Bible from English to Kamba dies aged 88," October 7, 2019. (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Religion News Service: "A Tribute to Mwalimu John Mbiti, patriarch of African philosophy and religion studies," Ocotber 31, 2019. By Jacob K. Olupona. (USA)
• Orisha and Yoruba--African and New World Religions
  
  • ATLA: "African Traditional Religions: Ifa." (2023) A libguide created for ATLA by the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library. (Chicago, Illinois)
    
  • Christianity, Islam, and Orisa religion: three traditions in comparison and interaction. By J.D.Y. Peel.  Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2016. --via OAPEN (The Hague, The Netherlands)
    
  • OrishaNet: A Web Resource for Ifa, La Santeria and the Orishas (Frank Baba Eyiogbe, USA)
  • World History Encyclopedia: Orisha (2021) By Joshua L. Mark. (Surrey, UK)
• ”This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys”: PBS Television Series. A co-production of Blackside, Inc., The Faith Project, Inc., and Independent Television Service. (Public Broadcasting Service, Arlington, Virginia)
  The web site of the television program series about African-American religious history and historical figures; includes a profile of Olaudah Equiano, an essay on Religion in Africa, and a timeline and other highlights on the transatlantic slave trade since the 15th century.
• Wim van Binsbergen's writings on "African Religion: studies in anthropology and intercultural philosophy" Shikanda Portal (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
  Note: Many articles deal especially with religion and culture in Botswana, Guinea-Bissau, Tunisia, and Zambia.