Introduction<BR>

"Contemporary Moroccan Writing and Islamic Discursivity,"<BR>

C. Gibbins<BR>

"Jihad, Ijtihad, and other Dialogical Wars in La Mre<BR>

du printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine," G. Lang<BR>

"Daughters of Hagar: Daughters of Muhammad," S. Lee<BR>

"The Re-Racination of Driss Chra bi: A Hajj in Search of a New Mecca," J.C. Hawley<BR>

"Women's Words: Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine," P. Geesey<BR>

"Sittaat: Somali Women's Songs for the 'Mothers of the Believers,'" L. Kapteijns with M.O. Ali<BR>

"Islamic Influences on Oral Traditions in Hausa Literature,"<BR>

P.E. Starratt<BR>

"The Fusion of Sufi and Nomad Thought in the Poetry<BR>

of Hawad, Tuareg Mystic," D. Boyd-Buggs<BR>

"Women's Islamic Literature in Northern Nigeria, 1820-1970," J. Boyd and B. Mack<BR>

"The Quest for Orthodoxy in Ibrahim Tahir's The Last Imam," A. Bangura<BR>

"Griots, Islam, and the French Encounter in Four Epics About 19th Century West African Heroes," B.C. Bowles and T.A. Hale<BR>

"Muslim Perceptions in a Swahili Oral Genre," F. Topan<BR>

"Mapping Islam in Farah's Maps," A. Mazrui<BR>

"Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame and The Holy Qur'an,"<BR>

M. Phillips