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History

Christopher Harrison
France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960

New York, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Map

Introduction

Part I — 1850-1898: Nineteenth-century Origins of French Islamic Policy

• Introduction
• French Islamic policy in Senegal and Algeria

Part II — 1898-1912: The fear of Islam

• Introduction
• The fear of Islam
• Education policy and Islam
• French Islamic policy in crisis: the Futa Jallon 1909-1912

Part III —French scholarship and the definition of Islam noir

• Introduction
• Scholar-administrators and the definition of Islam noir
• The First World War

Part IV — IV 1920-1940: The French stake in Islam noir

• Introduction
• Post-war attitudes to Islam
• The Frencli stak-e in Islam
• The rediscovery of Islam
• Epilogue 1940-1960

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography