Islamic Africa 2.2

Contents SOURCES There Was Another Man . . . and a Woman: La Nouvelle Grammaire de l'Amazighe from the L'Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe 1 Madia Thomson Abubakar Gumi's al-?Aq?da al-?a a bi-Muw?faqat al-Shar a: Global Salafi sm and Locally Oriented Polemics in a Northern Nigerian Text 9Alex Thurston ARTICLES An African Scholar in the Netherlands East Indies: al-Shaykh Ahmad Surkitti (1876-1943) and His Life, Thoughts, and Reforms 23Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk Central Sudanic Arabic scripts (Part 1): The Popularization of the Kanaw? Script 51Andrea Brigaglia The Salafi Praxis of Constructing Religious Identity in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Growth of the Movements in Accra and Cape Town 87Yunus Dumbe BOOK REVIEWS Review of Mogamat Hussein Ebrahim's The Cape Hajj Tradition: Past and Present 117Muhammed Haron Review of Mirzai, Montana, and Lovejoy's Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora 119David Skinner Review of Adeline Masquelier's Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town 123Abdoulaye Sounaye Review of Geert Mommersteeg's Dans la cite de marabouts 128Tal Tamari