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Article: The Marabout and the Muse: new approaches to Islam in African literature.(Review)
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KENNETH W. HARROW (ed.), The Marabout and the Muse: new approaches to Islam in African literature. Studies in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1996, 262 pp., 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 540 7 paperback (Currey), 0 453 08983 8 (Heinemann).
This book follows on from the earlier volume Faces of Islam in African Literature, also edited by K. W. Harrow (1991). Three of the contributors to the first work (Debra Boyd-Buggs, Thomas Hale, George Lang) also contribute to the second. The present volume builds on the strengths of its forerunner while taking into consideration additional African languages (Hausa, and Tamajak or ...