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This is a 470 page 1969 Oxford University Press HARDBACK. Nineteen essays, of which three are in French and sixteen in English. Contributors include. S. TRIMINGAM on Islamic culture zones; SABURI BIOBAKU on Sudanese and Niger-Chad region; THOMAS HODGKIN on Islamic literary tradition in Ghana; YUSUF HASAN on Islam in Eastern Sudan. First published in 1966, this book covers aspects of the history of Islam in tropical Africa that are no longer well studied.