Rural and urban Islam in West Africa / 
edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Humphrey J. Fisher. 
 - Boulder, Colo. :  L. Rienner Publishers,  1987, c1986. 
 - vii, 176 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "The text of this volume was first published as volume 20/1 of Asian and African studies by the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Univer sity of Haifa"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Rural and urban Islam in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- Merchants vs. scholars and clerics in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- The econ omics of Islam in the southern Sahara / E. Ann McDougall -- The shaykh' s men / Lucie G. Colvin -- Tcherno Aliou, the wali of Goumba / Lamin Sa nneh -- Dyula and Sonongui roles in the Islamization of the region of K ong / Kathryn L. Green -- Ahmadiyya and urbanization / May Yacoob -- Co urt and periphery in Ethiopian Christianity / Steven Kaplan -- Liminali ty, hijra, and the city / Humphrey J. Fisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1555870562 (lib. bdg.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>87-004712 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam--Africa, West.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa, West--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297.0966