Introduction: patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience among Muslims of Africa / Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels
Egypt and North Africa / Peter von Sivers
The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea / M.N. Pearson
Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 / Nehemia Levtzion
The Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest / Ivor Wilks
Precolonial Islam in the eastern Sudan / Jay Spaulding
Revolutions in the western Sudan / David Robinson
The eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present / John O. Voll
Islam in Africa under French colonial rule / Jean-Louis Triaud
Islam in West Africa: radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990 / Lansiné Kaba
Religious pluralisms in northern Nigeria / William F.S. Miles
Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / Lidwien Kapteijns
The East African coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. / Randall L. Pouwels
The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa / David C. Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo
East Central Africa / Edward A. Alpers
Islam in southern Africa, 1652-1998 / Robert C.-H. Shell
Radicalism and reform in East Africa / Abdin Chande
Islamic law in Africa / Allan Christelow
Muslim women in African history / Roberta Ann Dunbar
Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa / Stefan Reichmuth
Sufi brotherhoods in Africa / Knut S. Vikør
Prayer, amulets, and healing / David Owusu-Ansah
Islamic art and material culture in Africa / René A. Bravmann
Islamic literature in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow
Music and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa / Eric Charry.