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Hausa Calligraphic and Decorative Traditions of Northern Nigeria: From the Sacred to the Social 尼日利亚北部豪萨书法和装饰传统:从神圣到社会

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2017-10-17 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00801003

M. H. Kurfi

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Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God , written by Dorothea E. Schulz 西非的穆斯林和新媒体:通往上帝的道路，作者:Dorothea E. Schulz

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00702006

S. M. Lliteras

引用次数: 2

Fatwa and Propaganda: Contemporary Muslim Responses to the Sudanese Mahdiyya 法特瓦与宣传:当代穆斯林对苏丹马赫迪亚的回应

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00702003

F. Nicoll

引用次数: 1

Racing Away from Race: The Literary Aesthetics of Islam and Gender in Mohammed Naseehu Ali’s The Prophet of Zongo Street and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s The Whispering Trees 逃离种族:穆罕默德·纳西胡·阿里《宗戈街的先知》与阿布巴卡尔·亚当·易卜拉欣《低语的树》中的伊斯兰文学美学与性别

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00702010

S. Edwin

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Muslim women in Burkina Faso since the 1970s : toward recognition as figures of religious authority? 20世纪70年代以来布基纳法索的穆斯林妇女:走向被承认为宗教权威人物?

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00702001

Frédérick Madore, M. Gomez-Perez

引用次数: 6

Narrative islamischer Konversion. Biographische Erzählungen konvertierter Muslime in Ostafrika, written by Tabea Scharrer 复兴伊斯兰教查尔斯·沙姆莱的传记改编

IF 0.4 4区哲学

Islamic Africa Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/21540993-00702009

J. Thielmann

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The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century, written by Henri Lauzière 《萨拉菲主义的形成:二十世纪的伊斯兰教改革》，作者:亨利·劳齐<e:1>