This engaging collection of essays offers new insights into the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa in the past and closer to the present.

Note on Transliteration Acknowledgements Introduction: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa African Muslims and Christians in World Flesh Soaked in Faith: Meat as a Marker of the Boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods A Fifty-Year Muslim Conversion to Christianity: Religious Ambiguities and Colonial Boundaries in Northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963 The Time of Conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safen of Senegal, 1914-1950s Christianity as Seen by an African Muslim Intellectual: Amadou Hampate Ba Fundamentalism and Outreach Strategies in East Africa: Christian Evangelism and Muslim Da'wa In My End Is My Beginning: Muslim and Christian Traditions at Cross-Purposes in Contemporary Nigeria An Opportunity Missed by Nigeria's Christians: The 1976-78 Sharia Debate Revisited The "Sharia Factor" in Nigeria's 2003 Elections From Resistance to Reconstruction: Challenges Facing Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa Contributors Index