Introduction / Terje Østebø -- The "Traveling Scholar" in African Islamic Traditions: Local, Regional, and Global Worlds / Anne K. Bang -- An Overview of Islamic Literature in Africa: Local and Global Interactions / -- Scott Reese -- Pathways and Formations of 'African Sufism' / Knut S. Vikør -- A Historiography of Sub-Saharan African Mosques: From Colonialism to Modernity / Cleo Cantone -- Sufi Shrines as Material Space / Eric Ross -- The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education / Robert Launay -- Muslim Christian Relations in Africa: Tracing Transformations on the Ground and in a Growing Field of Study / Shobana Shankar -- Islam and the Question of Gender / Joseph Hill -- Islam and Politics in Africa: Politics Within and Without the State / Ahmed Ibrahim -- Jihadism in Africa / Alex Thurston -- African Salafism / Terje Østebø -- Dynamics of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Roman Loimeier -- Fayda-Tijaniyya and Islamic Reform in Twentieth and Twenty-first Africa / -- Ousman Murzik Kobo -- Reform in the Discourse of Islam and the Making of Muslim Subjects / Abdulkader Tayob -- People's Quest for Well-Being: Tracing Islamic Healing Practices in Africa / Benedikt Pontzen -- Islam, Muslim Life-worlds, and Matters of the Everyday / Kjersti Larsen -- Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam / Louis Audet Gosselin -- Popular Culture in Muslim Africa / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Media, the Digital, and New Connections / Dorothea Schulz -- Beyond the Invisible Muslims Label: The Building of African Muslim Diasporic Communities in the West / Abdoulaye Kane.