Introduction; M.Diouf & M.A.Leichtman PART I: THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PEDAGOGY OF ISLAM The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques; C.Cantone The Longue Durée of Qur'anic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia; R.T.Ware PART II: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND SEXUALITY Migration, Marriage, and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance; A.Drame Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority, and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya; B.A.Buggenhagen Jambaar or Jumbax-out?: How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity; E.Augis PART III: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam; J.F.Searing The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Brotherhoods; M.A.Leichtman Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at ; M.Janson PART IV: MODERNITY, POLITICS,AND DIALECTICS Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization; J.W.Glover Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements; F.Samson-Ndaw Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal; R.Loimeier