Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) by E. Ann McDougall

Author:E. Ann McDougall [McDougall, E. Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138946637
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-07-23T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Among those that did look into Islam in Liberia, and at times even at Christian-Muslim relations, the most important is Benjamin Anderson’s description of the journeys he undertook to Muslim towns in the forest and the savannah in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, which is probably the earliest account of Islam in Liberia. A complete edition of his reports was published in 1971, accompanied by a very insightful introduction by Humphrey Fisher. Anderson was followed by his contemporary and fellow Liberian, Edward W. Blyden, who published from 1887 a series of essays on the topic of Islam, including Islam in Liberia (1887ab [1967 and 1971]). Other contributors to the study of Islam in Liberia are Augustine Konneh (1993, 1996b) and M. Alpha Bah (1991). The former published comprehensive studies of the main Muslim group in Liberia, the Mandingo, while the latter wrote on Islam in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

2 Careysburg, east of Monrovia, which was founded in 1857, Brewersville, and Arthington up the St. Paul River, both founded in 1869.

3 Benjamin Anderson’s (1971) account was considered one of the best geographical descriptions of the Liberian hinterland at the time, although the veracity of his reports was questioned mainly by French writers, who went as far as claiming he never even reached Musadu.

4 The League of Nations Commission’s Findings, Suggestions and Recommendations (Guannu 1972, Appendix 7: 179).

5 Blyden published extensive research on Islam. His most comprehensive scholarly work on the topic is Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race, published in 1887 (reprinted 1967 and 1971). It is comprised of fifteen papers, four of which deal directly with Islam. Two more of Blyden’s articles about Islam were published in a separate collection of his essays Black Spokesman (1971).

6 See Hollis R. Lynch, “Introduction” to Blyden (1971). In this article, I only elaborate on the second of these “conclusions.” For Blyden’s explanation of Islam’s advantages over Christianity as a religion for Africans see chapter “Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) and the paradox of Islam” in Curtis IV (2002, 21-43).

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