Contents
Introduction: En-gendering Islamic Authority in West Africa - Britta Frede and Joseph Hill
Piety, Moral Agency, and Leadership: Dynamics Around the Feminization of Islamic Authority in Côte d’Ivoire - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
Aïcha’s Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and Resistance in Dakar - Erin Augis
Following in the Steps of ʿAʾisha: Ḥassāniyya-Speaking Tijānī Women as Spiritual Guides (Muqaddamāt) and Teaching Islamic Scholars (Limrābuṭāt) in Mauritania - Britta Frede
Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal - Joseph Hill
Review of Ellen J. Amster’s Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956 - Matthew Heaton
Review of Abdulai Iddrisu’s Contesting Islam in Africa: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920–2010 - Ousmane Kane
Review of Marloes Janson’s Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jamaʿat - Farish A. Noor