The Muslims Internet Directory

Medieval Sourcebook provides two primary source documents that chronicle the Arab invasion and conquest of Egypt in 642 AD.

Describes the spread of Islam through Africa after the death of the Prophet Muhammed. Notes how Islam served to facilitate trade and literacy.

Detailed study covers the spread of Islam throughout Africa and its effect upon pre-Islamic African civilizations.

Message board provides postings by university scholars regarding suggestions for approaching the study of African Islamic history

Contains a review and purchasing details for a book edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwels chronicling Islamic history in Africa.

Reports on the history of the arrival of Islam in South Africa and the coming of Tariqahs to the Cape.

Professor A. Rahman Doi offers an essay tracing the spread of Islam through Africa. Find details about kings and the meaning of the word, Africa.

Summarizes the history of the development of the Muslim religion on the African continent, beginning in 615 AD.

Provides a review of a book by Abdulkader Tayob that traces the development of Islamic institutions in South Africa over the last 200 years.

Details the spread of Islam religion and culture through the Middle East and Africa after the prophet Muhammad's death in the seventh century.

Chronicles the history of the Islamic slave trade in Africa and describes Muslim attitudes towards non-Muslim slaves.

Professor A. Rahman I. Doi describes the spread of Islam throughout the empires of Ghana, Mali, Songhay and Kanem Bornu.