Amidu Olalekan Sanni

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ID706489
NOMEAmidu Olalekan Sanni
PRENOMESAmidu Olalekan
SOBRENOMESanni
ASSINATURASANNI A O
AFILIAÇÕESLagos State University
ORCID0000-0002-3674-9123
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS70
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES53
TOTAL COMO AUTOR70
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1989
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • The Classical Arabic Maqāma in Yorubaland, Nigeria

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2026

  • History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2025

  • Equals in Learning and Piety

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2024

  • Arabic Literature of Africa

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2023

    Journal Article Arabic Literature of Africa: The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa Edited by Alessandro Gori, Adday Hernández, and Irmeli Perho Get access Arabic Literature of Africa: The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern AfricaEdited by Alessandro Gori Adday Hernández, and Irmeli Perho (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2022. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle, 13/3b), xviii + 193 pp. Price H…

  • Approaches to the Qur’an in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Zulfikar Hirji

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2021

  • Arabic Oration. Art and Function, written by Tahera Qutbuddin

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2021

  • Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2021

    Harry Norris (1926–2019) was ever an inspiration to those of us who studied with him at SOAS in the 80s. Even in retirement, the exceptional depth and breadth of intellectual and analytical rigour which had marked his scholarship on Africa continued to radiate in his new field of interest in the manuscripts of Eastern Europe and the Caucusus. For close to six decades, he dedicated his monumental and inspiring scholarly life to investigations into…

  • The Krio of West Africa

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2020

  • Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 5. The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara, Parts 1 and 2 Edited by Charles Stewart

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2017

  • African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Volume 1

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2017

    Since the second half of the twentieth century, the need for utilizing autochthonous African sources on various aspects of African history as part of the ‘decolonization’ process started to gel. Thus the UNESCO, through its Slave Route Project, spearheaded in the 1990s the initiative of unearthing authentic African voices on slavery from the victims and the protagonists (that is, the enslaved and their heritage) and the descendants of slave merch…

  • Muslims beyond the Arab World

    Open AccessAmidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2017

    The stereotypical division of the Muslim world into the ‘mainland’ (Arab Middle Eastern) and the ‘periphery’ (non-Arab world) is being continually thrown from the twilight of the last century into the side-line of political and intellectual correctness as evidenced by two phenomena. First, the enormous intellectual legacy of the ‘peripheral’ Sudanic (I am unimpressed with the pejorative ‘sub-Saharan’, p. 25) Africa, as established in the multivol…

  • The Divine Flood. Ibrāhīm Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival, written by Rüdiger Seesemann, 2011

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEDie Welt des Islams2016

  • The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2016

    This is a Festschrift in honour of the internationally acclaimed Islamicist, Harald Motzki, who has, over the past five decades or so, contributed lastingly and creatively to exploring the foundational sources of Islam, and some of the disciplines emerging from both, namely ḥadīth and Qurʾānic studies, biography of the Prophet, and jurisprudence. Indeed, it was his 1991 major work on fiqh, Die Anfage der islamischen Jurisprudenz that radically tr…

  • Classical Arabic Literature

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2016

    Journal Article Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology Selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder Get access Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology Selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder (New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. Library of Arabic Literature), xxviii + 468pp. Price PB £16.99. EAN 978–0814738269. Amidu Olalekan Sanni Amidu Olalekan Sanni Search…

  • The Divine Flood. Ibrāhīm Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival By Rüdiger Seesemann

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2016

    A hagiographical narrative indicates that the eponymous founder of the Tijāniyya, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Tījānī (1150–1230/1737–1815) had predicted the emergence of an overflowing ( fayḍa ) within his Order. This prediction is believed to have crystallized in the Jamāʿat al-fayḍa , a branch of the Order which emerged in Senegal around 1929 at the hands of Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975), probably the most influential and charismatic Sufi leader of twent…

  • Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im Spätantiken Kontext [Al-Ḥīra. An Arabic Cultural Metropolis in Late Antiquity]

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEInstitute of Muslim Minority…2016

    Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spӓtantiken Kontext is the 104th volume in the “Islamic History and Civilisation” series from Brill. It is the story of the geographical site, al-Ḥīra, as

  • The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qurrhring N. Three Books, Two Cities, One Tale by Anton Wessels, Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Translated by Henry Jansen

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2015

    This is an English translation of a Dutch original which first appeared in 2010. The basic theme of the work by the ordained Presbyterian Minister and Professor Emeritus of religion is that the adherents of the three Abrahamic faiths must read their scriptures, viz, the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, and the Qurʾān, not against each other but ‘together and attempt to understand them as much as possible in association with one another’ (p. xviii). This…

  • Schooling Islam

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2015

    Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 43(2), pp. 250–251

  • The Qurʾān in Context

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2015

    This is the sixth in the Brill’s ‘Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān’, a series which is wholly dedicated to scholarship on the Qurʾān. It may be useful to state that the paperback edition being reviewed here contains a significant update not found in the hardback edition published a year earlier, namely, information about the projected volumes of historical-critical commentary on the Qurʾān, (p. 15, n. 34a). The roots of this work go back to a 2004…

  • The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad with the Christians of the World

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEInstitute of Muslim Minority…2015Citada por: 2

    Covenantal discourse has been very profound in Judaeo-Christian scholarly tradition but it is all but sidestepped in Islamic covenant theology and studies until very recently.1 For those who are ob

  • Educating Muslim Women

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2015

  • Localising Salafism. Religious Change among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia By Terje Ostebo

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2014

    In my review of a recent volume on Salafism in the Muslim world, I was critical of the near neglect of Sudanic Africa in regard to narratives on adventures in ‘return to the roots’, pristine Islam. (See my review of Roel Meijer [ed.], Global Salafism, London, Hurst, 2009 in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 32/2 [2012]: 280–1.) The ten-chapter volume under review here has, in some way, come to correct this neglect by exploring the phases and fa…

  • Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama‘at

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEInstitute of Muslim Minority…2014

    The Editors are pleased to add this explanatory note from Dr Simon Ross Valentine, the author of the book Islam & the Ahmadiyya Jamaat which was reviewed by Dr Amidu Olalekan Sanni in JMMA, Volume

  • Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEInstitute of Muslim Minority…2014Citada por: 2

  • The Crusades

    Amidu Olalekan SanniARTICLEInstitute of Muslim Minority…2014