TIMBUKTU, Mali -- Lit by a sunbeam slanting through his broken roof, a 16-year-old Islamic student chants verses from a brittle, yellowing page -- one of an estimated 1 million ancient texts that ...

2001-12-02T02:05:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/16f/20011202020514001.jpgParticipants talked about the history and growth of Islam in Africa and the ...

Prophet Muhammad died in the mid-seventh century, and Islam is thought to have spread to the East African coastline sometime ... the diet of the area’s ancient inhabitants.

PERHAPS the history of Islam is incomplete without a mention of Egypt. This is an ancient country that has pioneered world civilisation in all ramifications. Over a span of 50 centuries, the banks of ...

Africa’s Muslim belt is getting bloodier. Boko Haram—the regional affiliate of Islamic State and one of the world’s deadliest terrorist groups—has accelerated its campaign of almost daily ...

A seminar will discuss the history and status of the substantial population of Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa and whether or not it may become a bastion of "radicalized Islam." DYNAMIC PAGE ...

Islam was a modernizing influence in Africa, it imposed order among different societies, strengthened the powers of governments, and broke down ethnic loyalties. Islam Islam is one of Africa's ...